Light Center Speyer

Gentle Middle Speyer
larger Frankfurt space, Germany

by Peter Stasek ArchitectPhotographer Lena Rübsam

Gentle Middle Speyer, located in a manufacturing unit constructing, was to be designed as exhibition house, consulting space and assembly place. Right here, a body producing inside design synergy results was to be created for all newest mild traits, applied sciences and lightweight designs. Its subtle construction was to construct the spine of your entire mild exhibition, however on the identical time was by no means to overshadow the precedence of the lighting objects to be exhibited. For this objective, nature created a unifying form as inspiration: the „tornado“, a pure phenomenon with invisible forces which make practically every part float and which, on the identical time, trigger new aesthetics of spiral crusing. The maelstrom of the tornado, a polarizing power, magically attracts nearly each customer into the center of the exhibition and makes them, along with all of the high-end mild objects, utterly neglect the present gravity.
The whole space of the Gentle Middle Speyer is about 300 sqm. It contains a principal exhibition room with a peak of just about 6 m and an built-in gallery, an workplace wing, an entrance corridor with reception and convention features in addition to sanitary services.

The organically formed 3D tornado sculpture, which is floating within the air, marks the center of the showroom along with the reception desk comprised of rusted metal. Each adapt themselves to the spiral upwards motion of the tornado. This motion already begins inside the 2D flooring masking design. The shear partitions that are tangent to the tornado are aligned to the natural traces of the tornado simply as the entire form of the intermediate ceiling with metal columns and the structure of the sails above the gallery.

The usage of primary supplies, not just for the bearing building but in addition for the floor design, is attribute for your entire inside design of the Gentle Middle Speyer. On this matter, solely untreated metal, which for probably the most half stays seen, was used, amongst others, for the supporting construction of the gallery. The ground masking of the showroom was comprised of polished concrete with color components, and the ground masking of the gallery was designed as a visual, untreated wood ceiling building. In some predetermined areas, the wall and ceiling coverings comprised of plaster boards have been emphasised by rusted metal plates. The identical rusted metal plates make up the reception desk masking in addition to an inlay inside the flooring masking design. For the sails, a camouflage internet of the Norwegian Military was used as optical division between the showroom and the gallery.

The mergence of the color and lightweight idea is one other attribute function of the inside design of the Gentle Middle Speyer. The complete color vary of the ground coverings, partitions, ceilings and the furnishings relies on the utilisation of non-colours. Solely shades of white, anthracite and grey have been utilized enabling all color accents inside the showroom to be generated solely by the sunshine itself or by the floor design of the sunshine objects.

Peter Stasek Architect