Christmas lights | Zurich
Bahnhofstrasse Christmas lights | ZurichCompetition 2008 | 2009 - 2010
In collaboration with CH Design, Adrian Schiess
Design: Daniele Marques & Rainer Schlumpf
Collaborator: Rainer Schlumpf, Dipl. Arch. FH FHZ
Photographer: Heinz Unger, Zurich | Roger Frei, Zurich
The main aim of the Christmas lighting is a return to the underlying theme of spreading a festive mood. Thus the project does not primarily attempt to celebrate a specific form or spatial idea. Instead, it focuses on the overall impression, an atmosphere. The references to the old Christmas lights of 1971 are therefore deliberate, but not a central theme of the design. However, the lighting does attempt to reinterpret the quality and flair of the old lighting. The spatial structures should reach as far down to the pedestrian area as possible, thereby forming a sweeping, fluent street space. The lights will have two colours. Along the façades, a cool, blue light does not compete with the individual lighting of the shops. The street space radiates with a warm, golden-yellow light. The light sequences designed by Adrian Schiess evoke spatial impressions such as: snow flurries, passing clouds of light, figures resembling the northern lights, or simple atmospheric moods.