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Blautopf-School – Blaubeuren (DE)

Professional lighting control in the community school

Blautopf School – Blaubeuren (DE)

After two years of construction works, the students of the Blautopf School could move into the new building in time for the 2017/18 school year. Blaubeuren’s new comprehensive school was built in a central position in the park between a swimming pool and a high school. The Braunschweig architecture practice, “Dohle+Lohse” won the contract for the well-arranged and simple new build. Part of the package was the flexible, powerful but economical DALISYS lighting control system from B.E.G.

The central teaching unit of the school building is the “Lernbüro”, or learning centre, at over 400m². Desks, chairs and shelving can be rearranged at will, and all students can use this learning centre individually. To emphasise the unity of the learning centre over and above the various individual and group work areas, the entire learning centre is controlled as one lighting group. This resulted in a technical problem, in that over 64 lights had to be controlled, which is not possible with standard DALI. This was a deciding factor for DALI-SYS. The DALI-SYS lighting control system from B.E.G. is scalable – everything is possible, from fitting out single rooms to lighting control for a complete building complex. The components are addressable and work on the principle of distributed intelligence. The floors of the school are controlled with the “Guided Light” option of the DALI-SYS system. With “Guided Light”, the respective section and the adjacent sections can be regulated to full brightness. More distant sections remain dimmed to orientation light level. As a result, it is not necessary to illuminate the whole floor.