feno before light and beyond Lentos, Linz Art Museum The beautiful

feno before light and beyond
Lentos, Linz Art Museum
The beautiful red-blue Danube: at dusk, the art museum takes on an
ever-changing mantel of light.
Lentos is one of the most important museums of
modern art in Austria – for its exhibits and also for its
architecture. The glass skin reflects the ambient light
and gives the building a transparent, almost weightless
character. This impression of weightlessness continues
at night. Lentos starts to glow at dusk, seemingly
absorbing the energy of the reddening evening sky. The
color changes smoothly from red to blue, from blue to
red … a living body of light in the nocturnal silhouette of
Linz, mirrored by the black and silent Danube.
What appears to float like a Mozart minuet is actually
based on a sophisticated and beautifully conceived
»score« for light sources and control elements. The
display is managed by a total of 116 feno signal
converters which use the DMX protocol to control the
brightness and color of the DSI luminaires integrated in
the frame of the façade, until the sun rises the following
morning.
©feno GmbH/Stand: 08.08.2011
Used Products:
fi dmx-dsi 4d
Contractor: Stadt Linz, www.linz.at
Architects: Weber Hofer Partner AG, Zürich/CH
Electrical Planning: Wagner & Partner Ziviltechniker GmbH, Linz/A
Electrical Installation: Elektro & Electronic Landsteiner GmbH,
Amstetten/A
Photograph credits: Engelhardt/Sellin