Prize(s) Honorable Mentions
Lighting Design/Product Company Tobias Link GmbH
Lead Designers Tobias Link
Other Designer's names Oliver Link
Client Möbel Martin B.V. & Co.KG
Photo Credits Tom Gundelwein
Other Credits Marco Schiel
Completion Date March 2024
Project Location Ensdorf, Germany
Entry DescriptionGood lighting design has many facets, and projects that appear quite profane at first glance offer opportunities in their simplicity to design light – and here explicitly the lighting control – and to get the best out of the possibilities within the narrow limits set by a commercial project.
Möbel Martin in Ensdorf is the first furniture store to have implemented adaptive lighting across its entire sales area of 30,000 m². The traditional way of thinking, that all lighting must always be dimmed to 100%, has changed to one of sustainable and energy-efficient lighting. We are familiar with sensor-controlled lighting in corridors or offices, but on the sales area of a large store with its nested booths and interior situations, dimming via motion detectors is a very special challenge, because it must not happen that a customer suddenly finds themselves in a darkened area. Therefore, a great amount of effort was put into the strategically clever placement and interlinking of luminaires to sensors. When customers are present, the lighting dims to 100%; otherwise, the lighting dims to 30% in a fairly short period of time.
The positive effect: the customer feels valued because the lighting is „switched on just for them“. In addition, the dimming up explicitly brings the furnishing situation into the focus of perception.
Sustainability ApproachThe design involved just a single luminaire type, which still has an efficiency of 120 lm/W even with TW functionality and is thus able to adjust the light colour to match daylight. This makes the space a high-quality environment for customers and employees.
Installation costs were also kept low by using CASAMBI technology which eliminated the need to install control lines. This also made it easy to integrate the sensors into the system. In addition to the 40% savings achieved by switching to efficient LED lighting, the adaptive control via motion sensors saves a further 30% on average. This not only benefits the environment, but also reduces energy costs.
Due to the large number of luminaires, several luminaires are supplied by one unit, rather than each luminaire having its own control gear. This minimises the consumption of resources and makes control easier.
