- Conceptual and detail design for a landmark €90m educational facility in Vienna, Austria.
- Lighting accentuates the shape and form as well as the varying uses of the building.
The Library and Learning Centre, by Zaha Hadid Architects, is located in the heart of the University of Economics & Business (WU Wien) campus in Vienna, Austria.
Arup’s lighting designers created the conceptual and detailed lighting for the internal public spaces, library, offices, study areas and the exterior of the building.
The lighting was influenced by the architecture – two separate intertwined structures within one space. These two buildings hold the library and administration offices and are connected by glazed ‘canyons’ that act as a glue to hold the two functions together.
The lighting reinforces the intertwined nature of the building through the use of curved, linear luminaries; and by illuminating the walls of the core structural elements with cove lighting.
One striking element is the series of continuous light lines that follow the structure of the façade and roof throughout the building. Developed in collaboration with Arup’s façade engineers, these lines run along the roof, through the atria and down along the walls, curving in two geometrical planes.
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