Kunsthalle Mannheim (Mannheim Museum of Modern Art) was designed as an extension of the city of Mannheim, which is known as the “city of squares” because of its ordered structure of blocks in a chessboard pattern. The new cube-style museum building is therefore divided into smaller units with thirteen galleries interlinked by bridges, stairs and terraces.

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Some of the rooms are open up to daylight from windows and glazing units, while others appear as introverted cabinets and halls. The various room situations make the lighting design of the museum challenging but designers from a.g. Licht and Rentex have used the LED luminaires of Tridonic to provide functional and aesthetic lighting solutions.

Linear Tridonic LLE advanced LED light engines were installed in the light ceilings with light engines in different lengths and with different luminous fluxes. By combining 24 mm wide LED light engines of type LLE G4 in different lengths and different light outputs with a color temperature of 3,500 K, the light from the ceiling panels can become homogeneous and the braces in the film frame will become invisible. A linear opal plastic cover, which Tridonic offers as an accessory for the LLE, also helps to ensure that the LEDs do not appear as individual points of light.

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The luminous flux can be reduced or increased without any perceptible color shift. Tridonic’s DALI lighting control is used for monitoring the luminaires which enables color fidelity. In addition, the LLEs are operated on one4all Premium drivers whose adjustable output current provides flexibility in the assignment of the LED light engines.

The flexibility of the lighting system allows the museum to meet its positioning of a “museum in motion,” whhere the objects from its collection can be presented in new combinations and themes, together with changing special exhibitions of works of art loaned from museums around the world.