corvin gate public light by urban landscape group
all images courtesy urban landscape group


budapest city is currently undergoing a renewal program called '3k' – köztéri kulturális kereszteződés
(public premises cultural crossing)' which began in the autumn of 2010 and will end in
the spring of 2011.

as part of the renewal program hungarian planners városi tájkép csoport tervező iroda
of urban landscape group and the engineers of tungsram-schréder were asked to design
the illumination technology of a special LED lamp to be built on the entrance passage in front
of corvin cinema.

made of corten steel the 20-tonne lamp structure consists of two asymmetric feet and a beam
positioned 4,8 meters high, stretching 35 metres long. this scale and structure makes the object
an architectural element, namely a gate. in the future, the 35 metre long console will take on
the task of a public light, instead of the normal street lamps. tungsram-schréder's astral lamp
has been improved by a special filter, providing an extraordinary visual effect that allows the pixel
in the LED walls to be built in the inner sides of the feet of the lamp. the final optics are presented
by the 35 uniquely planned astral LED lamps mounted with 2 380 pcs of LED's all together,
using a special patent. the allocation on the two vertical LED walls is 10mm’s and on the vertical
walls it is 20/10 mm’s.

an important parameter of the object is that the corten structure is present as a construction
connecting public lighting with special visual effects. this is an innovative use of the LED wall,
since this solution has mainly been used for media walls. a led surface of this size has never been
built in a public lighting system before.





















project info:
leading planners: városi tájkép csoport (urban landscape group) –
barbara szöllőssy, zsolt pyka
light technique planners: tungsram- schréder világítási berendezések zrt.
and városi tájkép csoport (urban landscape group) – barbara szöllőssy, zsolt pyka