Skip to content

Audio Version

See more about

More info

Project Name: Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition (MOCAPE)

Location: Shenzhen, China

Planning: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU – Wolf D. Prix & Partner ZT GmbH

Lighting design: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU – Wolf D. Prix & Partner, a.g licht, GD-Lighting Design

Façade Design: SuP Ingenieure GmbH

Year: 2016

Photography: He Shu

Client: Shenzhen Municipal Culture Bureau, Shenzhen, China – Shenzhen Municipal Planning Bureau, Shenzhen, China

Construction Agency: China Overseas Commercial Properties Co., Ltd

Design Principal: Wolf D. Prix

Project Partner: Markus Prossnigg

Design Architects: Quirin Krumbholz, Jörg Hugo, Mona Bayr

Project Architects: Angus Schoenberger, Veronika Janovska, Tyler Bornstein

Project Coordination: Xinyu Wan

Local Architects: HSArchitects, Shenzhen, China

a.g.licht: Wilfried Kramb, Klaus Adolph

GD-Lighting Design: Yenchin Wang, Hui Ren, Tim Cheng

Architectural Lighting Design for Mocape Shenzhen: The Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition

Shenzhen Mocape is located north of the Shenzhen Civic Centre; it is also the latest major public cultural project in Shenzhen.

The building is an integration of the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Arts and the Urban Planning Exhibition Halls. Surface materials of glass, perforated plate, and stone extend and twist along the steel structure, creating a complicated architecture full of vitality. However, the unique façade form also created great difficulties in lighting design. The lighting design overcame multiple challenges and successfully integrated within the building, neatly and sharply presenting a clear and translucent city “rock”.

BIM is a fast and effective solution for irregular shaped buildings. In the case of this lighting design process, it is also an effective attempt to use BIM to assist with lighting design.

By constructing a 1:1 architectural digital model in Rhino, the luminaire installation was mapped and also calculated multiple times with lighting design software in order to analyze different photometric, power and material reflectance. In addition, in order to resolve glare issues caused by the building’s concave and convex corners, we carried out multiple on-site tests, adjusting the luminaires’ installation angles, manipulating the photometrics, and adding shading accessories. Considering the large quantity of luminaires and their installation difficulties, it was finally decided to use custom-made U-shaped shading grooves with exterior baffles, adjustable in height, to block glare and the groove interior was coated matte black to reduce self-illumination.

Plan

Façades

The construction and commissioning process of this project took advantage of BIM’s convenience, seamlessly integrated building and façade, perfectly presented luminaire installation, load, wiring, and visual effects, which also laid the foundation for future lighting design processes for similar complex, irregular-shaped buildings.

Project Name: Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition (MOCAPE)

Location: Shenzhen, China

Planning: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU – Wolf D. Prix & Partner ZT GmbH

Lighting design: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU – Wolf D. Prix & Partner, a.g licht, GD-Lighting Design

Façade Design: SuP Ingenieure GmbH

Year: 2016

Photography: He Shu

urbanNext (December 2, 2024) Architectural Lighting Design for Mocape Shenzhen: The Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition. Retrieved from https://urbannext.net/mocape-shenzhen-lighting-design/.
Architectural Lighting Design for Mocape Shenzhen: The Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition.” urbanNext – December 2, 2024, https://urbannext.net/mocape-shenzhen-lighting-design/
urbanNext August 7, 2017 Architectural Lighting Design for Mocape Shenzhen: The Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition., viewed December 2, 2024,<https://urbannext.net/mocape-shenzhen-lighting-design/>
urbanNext – Architectural Lighting Design for Mocape Shenzhen: The Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition. [Internet]. [Accessed December 2, 2024]. Available from: https://urbannext.net/mocape-shenzhen-lighting-design/
Architectural Lighting Design for Mocape Shenzhen: The Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition.” urbanNext – Accessed December 2, 2024. https://urbannext.net/mocape-shenzhen-lighting-design/
Architectural Lighting Design for Mocape Shenzhen: The Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition.” urbanNext [Online]. Available: https://urbannext.net/mocape-shenzhen-lighting-design/. [Accessed: December 2, 2024]

urbanNext
urbanNext | expanding architecture to rethink cities and territories

Newsletter

Sign up to our newsletter

Search
Generic filters
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Search in excerpt
Formats
Audio&visual
Concept
Data
Essay
Forum
Lecture
Podcast
Project
Talk
Survey
Statement
Selfthink
High Density
Middle Density
Low Density
No Density

talk

essay

project

product

survey

data

all formats