Novartis Campus – Maki Office Building

Hence, a special tasklight has been designed for the workstations and sideboards in order to uniformly uplight the ceiling surface as the ambient lighting of the space. The free prismatic top cover provides a glare-free and comfortable environment. The second component within the luminaire are supplementary integrated LEDS to ensure adequate tasklighting and visual comfort for the working area. The LEDs are arranged in slightly different positions and angles to achieve the optimum of light distribution on the working plane.

Small meeting rooms are designed as single oval shaped closed-off spaces within the center part of the office floor. The lighting idea was to design the canopy of the “Private Rooms” as a glowing luminaire which seems to be floating in mid-air between the open office spaces in order to stress the architectural idea of a “transparent glowing box”. The luminaire generally has two functions: first of all, to uniformly light the working area within the “Private Rooms” by means of a room-sized backlit stretch ceiling and secondly to illuminate the adjacent circulation zone. Hence, the top part of the box received a laminated glazing with translucent interlayer in order to deviate some light upwards for indirect ceiling lighting.