Lighting for the Evangelical Parish

[EN] - Two arrays of multiple points of light seem to be weightlessly hovering under the ceiling of the nave of Melsungen’s evangelical church. In fact, the 60 light globes are suspended on fine, barely visible litz wires, which are connected to a carrier structure made from circuit board material. This white and silver structure, merely 1.5 mm thin and made up of slim connectors and octagonal nodes, is the modular lighting system *Track’s conducting board. The little globes (Ø 28 mm) give off the light. They consist of an LED (with a focussing lens and a translucent plastic cover) and a heat sink (colorless anodized aluminum). *Track’s individual elements can be flexibly connected to meet the requirements of different locations. Mood and amount of light can also be set according to your wishes, by using different amounts of globes, and by directing their light either upward or downward. Each globe has a light output of around 80 lm at a consumption of no more than 1.6 W. The structure in Melsungen has a luminous power of about 4800 lm at approximately 100 W. 90% of the globes project their light downward and illuminate the church’s seating area. For decorative purposes, some globes have also been used as uplights; in a fragmented play of light and shadow, they let an enlarged duplicate of the carrier structure appear on the ceiling. Two *Track arrays are suspended from the ceiling of Melsungen’s church, each one with 30 globes and overall dimensions of 2.2 m x 2.8 m. The globes have all been positioned at the same height, at a distance of 2 m to the carrier structure. Some of the globes’ shining plastic covers are colorless, others are colored blue or red. The emitted light is colorless. Both arrays allow for two different settings (outer ring and inner array), so that different lighting moods can be created. The installation was completed on October 12, 2012.