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SEFAR LIGHTFRAME
Modular construction and assembly concepts for textile surfaces having light and acoustic absorption properties.
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Its patented unobtrusive frame makes this an attractive element for use in providing improved quality of artificial and natural lighting, with acoustic properties. New design preferences for using illuminated textile surfaces open up a wide range of innovative applications for architects, lighting and general interior designers. Shortcomings of other factors – for example, poor functionality or climatic deficiencies – can be compensated for by well-designed lighting and sound ambiences.
Applications
Adjustable, highly translucent ceiling and wall units, lamps and ceiling panels. Acoustic ceilings, diverse membrane structures and facade concepts.
Benefits
Full access to the plenum by local maintenance staff. The thinnest of joint-lines are virtually shadow-free, providing uniform light distribution. Durable, color-fast, wrinkle-free stretched-membrane is VOC free and Fire rated. Modules and 2-ply which are dustproof and also act as sound absorbers.
PROJECTS
Jacobs Architects Office
Meetings with the clients happens in their conference rooms with SEFAR LIGHTFRAME fabric ceiling system.
Reference: Jacobs Architects Office
Moynihan Train Station, NY
SEFAR LIGHTFRAME illuminates this elegant, underground walkway of New York’s Penn Station terminal while providing a significant reduce in noise.
Reference: Moynihan Train StationAdditional information
University of California
The Lightframe modules provide lighting as well as the acoustic elements within the space.
Reference: University of California
Media Math Headquarters
Inspired by a skylight, the scrim is backlit with LEDs to give the impression that there’s light coming from above.
Reference: Media Math Headquarters
Tate Gallery of Modern Art
Homogeneous light ceiling with light metal frame
Reference: Tate Gallery of Modern Art
Elevator lobby Havenwood Office
The SEFAR LIGHTFRAME system graces the lobby which is surrounded by noisy hard surfaces.
Reference: Elevator lobby Havenwood Office
Grisons Museum of Fine Arts
The ceilings of the exhibition rooms in the subterranean levels are fitted with SEFAR LIGHTFRAME.
Reference: Grisons Museum of Fine Art
Audi Freehold
In the vehicle handover area at the new Audi Freehold dealership, customers pick up their vehicles with style in a room illuminated by SEFAR LIGHTFRAME wall and ceiling panels.
Reference: Audi Freehold, NYC
University Library Renovation
When renovating and building onto an existing library at St. Edwards University, the architect designed a cohesive, elegant interior with help from SEFAR LIGHTFRAME.
Reference: University Library
Luminous ceiling in the bank entrance area
Young, fresh, and dynamic is once again the impression customers get when they arrive in the large, bright hall at the headquarters of the Schaffhausen Cantonal Bank in Switzerland. The innovative architectural solution gives the impression of an open sky.
Reference: Luminous ceiling
Gallery daylight ceiling, Kassel
The top floor of the new Kassel Gallery is now much more attractive with the addition of a modern skylight.
Reference: Gallery daylight ceiling
Historic New York City Hotel, NY
The iconic Milford Plaza Hotel remains one of Manhattan’s largest hotels, and now includes an internet café and coffee shop adorned with an illuminated fabric wall backdrop using SEFAR LIGHTFRAME.
Reference: New York City HotelAdditional picture material
Medline Office Building, India
New office building in India with SEFAR LIGHTFRAME illumination.
Reference: Medline office building
Audi Vehicle Handover Area
In the vehicle handover area at the new Audi Manhattan, customers pick up their vehicles with style in a room illuminated by SEFAR LIGHTFRAME wall and ceiling panels.
Reference: Audi vehicle handover areaAdditional picture material
acrevis Bank – Shadowless Light
Bright meeting rooms in the customer lobby of acrevis Bank thanks to the light-acoustic membrane ceiling.
Reference: Customer lobby acrevis Bank
SEFAR LIGHTFRAME in the Art House, Uri (CH)
To ensure the visible qualities of the artwork in the museum are optimized, the right lighting conditions are extremely important. Since works of art illuminated by natural light appear very authentic, illumination by skylight has been chosen, reducing the design to three large, illuminated ceiling panels with Sefar fabrics.
Reference: House of art
Light ceiling for the museum Folkwang, Essen (DE)
Interior illumination in museums is of central importance.
Reference: Light ceiling museum Folkwang
SEFAR LIGHTFRAME ceilings fulfill these requirements.
Office space extension
In addition to the suspended fluorescent tube lighting system Krapf has provided dimmable and diffusely illuminated light panel.
Reference: Office space extension
City Park Pavilion, St. Gallen
To improve the unsatisfactory acoustic situation in the City Park Pavilion, the light canopy is designed to 'float' in a seamless way over the room with virtually invisible suspension cables.
Reference: City Park Pavilion
The suspended ceiling within in a circumferential frame, set back from the wall, reduces the appearance of the fabric surface enabling the ceiling, manufac- tured as a module, to float.
Automobile Service Center, Frankfurt
The entrance hall is illuminated by natural light via a front glass facade and by artificial light via an architectonically diverse ceiling structure material. Sixteen square SEFAR LIGHTFRAME modules, covered with photometric Sefar hi-tech fabric, achieve a standard of illumination not possible with other materials. No shadows are cast by the patented modular frame solution, which integrates almost seamlessly into the ceiling structure.
Reference: Automobile Service Cente
Light ceiling for forecourt and foyer of the FBC office tower
The special horizontal light canopy of the FBC building makes an immediate and lasting impression. The continuous light ceiling covers the entrance of the glass-fronted Café-Pavillon and carries on over the foyer.
Reference: FBC Tower, Frankfurt
Light ceiling Unique Zurich airport
The airport shopping concourse at the airport covers a surface area of 300 m². With this light ceiling, the look of a real sky can be simulated through innovative optical variations.
Reference: Unique Zurich Airport
Office lighting using a light-ceiling
The renovation of their newly-moved-into offices in an already-existing building involved finding a solution for the illumination of the work-area for Just/Burgeff.
Light cubes for hotel suites
The renovated hotel suites have a very special atmosphere achieved by the lighting units constructed using the SEFAR LIGHTFRAME system.
Reference: Hotel light cubes
Light ceiling – Caratsch Gallery exhibition area
Lighting for art-galleries giving good quality illumination in daylight and artificial light and designed to be minimally obtrusive. It is also easy to adjust for changing require- ments, has a small energy demand and allows the works of art (pictures, sculptures and installations) to be seen at their best and in their true colors.
Reference: Light ceiling
Raiffeisenbank St. Margrethen
This well-lit central section with its glazed ceiling also illuminates the counter-hall with daylight by the means of glass building blocks.
Reference: Raiffeisenbank
DEGI office area redesign
Open-plan floor design with communication areas, lluminated by light-panels made using fabric also having acoustic properties, where colleagues can meet and informally exchange ideas and information.
Reference: Office area redesign
Acoustic light system – Company head office
The use in modern architecture of built-in vertical lighting modules that also have acoustic properties have a positive effect in creating a pleasant working climate.
Reference: Acoustic light system
Tender documents
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Contact
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