Stone lights H07

A PLACE FOR PEOPLE
The gray veining of the stone that runs through the light-colored sections evokes associations with the landscape and, like the façade, points to the building's roots in classical modernism and its approach to durability and monumentality, as can be seen in Peter Behrens' Berolina House on Berlin's Alexanderplatz. Modernism's play with the properties of the materials used also resonates, just think of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion. Fawad Kazi has developed these 3.50-metre-high luminous elements into a family that runs through the entire new building, each reduced to half its size: The four-storey atrium adjoining the foyer after the completion of building 07B will have marble lights half the size. In the corridors they will measure a quarter of the size in the foyer and an eighth in front of the visitor elevators. The size of the luminaires guides people through the building, so to speak.