Berlin Underground Station
The design by Max Dudler pays homage to Karl-Friedrich Schinkel's historic 1816 stage design for Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, a luminous ultramarine blue and 6662 points of light illuminate a starry sky. The 180-metre-long station runs south of the Schlossbrücke bridge under the Spree Canal and serves as a prelude to the city's surrounding most important cultural institutions Museum Island, State Opera, Humboldt Forum.
The design of the colonnade is based on the classicist architecture of the surrounding buildings, characterised by a few selected materials. The precise fusion of the natural stone cladding made of granite and the lighting recessed seamlessly into the columns creates a high-quality, modern look. The decisive criteria for the lighting solution from SCHMITZ | WILA were light output, robustness, good regulation of the luminous intensity (also retroactively), simple and fast maintenance (including regular inspection of the masonry behind the luminaires).
