Nassauische Sparkasse, Wiesbaden, Germany


Thomas Emde created a light concept for the glass hall which stretches over a four floor office building ending up with two open stairs, which are connected to the office wings with short bridges and to each other with two long gutter (30 m). Its a light installation which will be inserted beneath the bridges and the gutters as an integral element in the architecture and  through an articulated and rhythmtic way the building emphasized and highlighted. 

The building shows its characteristic through its clear geometric form and the generous application of glass.. So its a building wich applies in its architecture lights as main creative work instrument and hence develops an enormous atmospheric profit and a comfortable working environment. The fact that 800 employees are working here, moving and wandering up and down the building, is the concept Thomas Emde is integrating. The artistic light concept Thomas Emde is developing highlights the vertical motion of the stair house as well as the horizontal direction of the gutter , through installing different kind of lights under the stairs and the gutter. This way he is transferring the daily motion of the daily work days into his own motion.

in the 60 units are invisible red, green and blue light instruments, controlled by a certain system programmed by the artist and dimmed against each other continuous and in soft trimming. In this way numerous colors and color flows will shine out through the architectural building. The colors and the dynamic of the programmed color sequences (20 min. nonstop series) are arranged in a way that the transitions in the spectral and theoretical color relations will be almost insensible.

Through the continuous changing of light under the bridge and gutters, a colored light would also be reflected into the hall. This way an accessible light installation takes place, and creates a symbosios of art and architecture. In this unit art is an inherent part of the architecture.

It is a light installation, which gives the observer different intentions day and night. Even from outside it is comfortable through the glass facade and ease the strict structure of the building through color and motions, without overriding its function.