Hamburg’s New HafenCity Subway Station is Lit with Shipping Container-Size LED Light Boxes

Munich-based lighting company <a href="http://www.lichtplanung.com/">Pfarre Lighting Design</a> is reinventing the lighting systems of European subway stations, and the firm's latest work in Hamburg has a chic, futuristic aesthetic. The new Hafencity University Subway Station was designed by <a href="http://www.raupach-architekten.de/">Raupach Architekten</a> and synthesized by the designs of Pfarre Lighting Design. The station is lit with creative colors, materials, and most of all, energy-saving LED lights.

The design of this subway station is industrial in nature. The modern ambiance of the station is created by the gravity defying installation of multiple six ton boxes above the platform.

These boxes are made from steel frames and translucent panels. They are designed to be the same size as a standard shipping container, and as if mimicking the subway trains themselves they hang perfectly spaced in a row.

Each box is illuminated by 280 individual RGB LED emitters, giving both energy efficiency and diversity of color to the lighting design. The lighting within the station can change to create an ambiance that reflects the season, time of day, or even the subway station manager’s mood.

Brilliant blues, oranges, purples, and reds help to give life and light to what could have been just another mundane subway station.

The new lighting design also contributes to higher safety levels within the subterranean transit stop.

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