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HIER SCHÖN, ÜBERALL SCHÖN? AED VERANSTALTUNG IM MOCK-UP STUTTGART

Am Mittwoch, den 13. Juni 2012 freuen wir uns, wieder den aed – Verein zur Förderung von Architektur, Engineering und Design in Stuttgart e.V. zu Gast zu haben.

"Global Design - Hier schön, überall schön?" lautet das Thema der kurzweiligen Vortrags- und Diskussionsveranstaltung. Im Anschluss laden wir Sie zu einem kleinen Snack und zu einem "Private Viewing" des EM-Vorrundenspiels Deutschland-Niederlande ein!

Moderation: Dr. Jons Messedat (corporate design & architecture, Stuttgart)
Referenten: Thomas Auer (Transsolar, Stuttgart), Tobias Wallisser (LAVA, Stuttgart), N.N. (Gira, Radevormwald)
Veranstaltungsort: Nimbus Mock-Up, Leitzstraße 4, 70469 Stuttgart
Beginn: 19:00 Uhr
Eintritt: kostenlos
Eine Anmeldung über die Webseite des aed ist erforderlich.

Der aed ist eine von Stuttgarter Ingenieuren, Architekten und Designern gegründete Initiative, deren Ziel es ist, die große Gestaltungskompetenz in der Region Stuttgart – vom Produkt- und Grafikdesign über Multimedia und Engineering bis hin zur Architektur – zu fördern und der Öffentlichkeit nahezubringen.
www.aed-stuttgart.de

Living-standard redefined: Nimbus involvement in the "e-living of the future"

The Nimbus Group is a project partner in one of Berlin's most innovative construction projects. Under the motto "Living-standard redefined", a unique property is under construction in the Prenzlauer Berg district, the "e-living of the future" Project 4.

The project encompasses the entire spectrum of living and working in the future: from "e-apartments" through to the "e-office of the future". Original architecture and technology solutions have been realised on 2500 m² of space and are now being tested under "live" conditions. e-living combines energy efficiency and progressive technology for the home; it represents a unique retreat for the occupant and impresses with its new design and networked lifestyle.

Situated in the middle of Berlin, the nation's first e-house reflects the entire spectrum of a new joie de vivre. This apartment building can be seen as an example of sustainable, flexible and interactive urban living. From the first to the fifth floor, there are 32 virtually barrier-free apartments with rooms that seem to flow into one another. The interior design features integrated sculpture-like fittings where people can sit or lie down and is connected up to electronic home technology. The penthouse floor, on the other hand, is a wooden, convex roof structure which has been placed on top of the building and, as an e-office of the future, shows how a flexible working environment takes shape.

As a leading innovator in the field of LED interior lighting and a founding member of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB), Nimbus is playing an active part in this modern construction project. The former factory building from the year 1910 was renovated from top to bottom using ecological materials and fitted with the latest generation of energy-efficient Nimbus LED.next luminaires.

The ground floor houses a showroom designed by the architect Alexis Dornier together with the founder of "e-living of the future", Dirk Fabarius. Here visitors can experience and test the vision of e-living 2022.

You would like to meet in Berlin for advice on our innovative Nimbus LED.next luminaires or Rossoacoustic systems? Simply arrange an appointment: ewohnen@nimbus-group.com

You will find further information on the project and reports on the individual construction phases at: www.e-wohnen-der-zukunft.de

Unheard rooms: Rosso at the AIT acoustics symposium in Frankfurt and Cologne

Unheard rooms – room acoustics between sound design & masking

The architectural journal AIT hold 2012 again its acoustics symposium together with the Fraunhofer Institute in Frankfurt and Cologne. Rosso will be involved in this events at 10th of May (Frankfurt) and 14th of May (Cologne)

Hard surfaces, reduced forms, clear-cut interiors – these have been the tendencies in development in global contemporary architecture for a number of years now. Architects and interior designers are urgently seeking new and innovative products also with the aim of ensuring effective room acoustics. The demand for acoustically effective architecture products will be identified and discussed during this one-day events.

Among other things, the Nimbus Group presents the sound-absorbing effect of Rossoacoustic materials, in particular that of Rossoacoustic CP30 and the Rossoacoustic TP 30, the new textile system. This solutions allows flexible shielding of work groups or departments in acoustically critical room situations. The absorbing-systems will be presented again in an creative house-in-house concept made of Rossoacoustic CP30.

You will find the detailed information at www.ait-akustiksymposion.com

We would like to welcome you in Frankfurt an Cologne!

Discover the Nimbus DNA at Light+Building 2012

The world's largest fair for light and building technology opens its doors once more on Sunday 15.04.2012 in Frankfurt am Main. The Nimbus Group would like to invite you to this biennial event, the world's leading fair in the sector, to explore our Nimbus LED.next luminaires' own unique genes and the new developments that have evolved from them!

Evolution by Design – ORIGINALS by Nimbus

Discover the origins and the future of Nimbus on our two stands:
Hall 1.2, Stand G10
Hall 3.1, Stand C95

From 15.04 to 20.04.2012, the Light+Building fair will be featuring world premieres in the field of lighting, electrical equipment and building automation. The major theme for 2012 is energy efficiency.

Hovering Light: The new Dish

The new Dish suspended LED luminaire from Nimbus seems to hover almost weightlessly in space. The flat light disc made of high-class white Corian and the matt or brilliant upper visible surfaces lend the luminaire a visual lightness and timeless elegance.

More information about this exceptional new luminaire you will find here.

Nimbus and Rosso unfold at Design Post Cologne

A new experience has been unfolding since January at the Design Post Cologne!

The Nimbus Group has not only unfurled new products from the areas of LED lighting and acoustic solutions in the design halls of Cologne's former parcel post depot – the company has also implemented an unusual folded-plate structure which visitors can walk right through and which will remain in place for the next two years.
Absolute reduction together with design which does full justice to the materials used have always played a prominent role in the Nimbus Group. Top quality surfaces and close attention to detail in the finishing process lend our products their unmistakable allure – making each solution a real original.
The new exhibition space in the Design Post is also quite unique: with its geometric diversity, the sculptural architecture forms a wide variety of spatial elements and the folds of the room-like sculpture climb almost playfully up into the void of the historical steel structure. The dissolution of wall and ceiling surfaces gives rise to fascinating areas for the presentation of the Nimbus Group's product world.

The Nimbus Group brought along a number of new and innovative "originals". An overview of the new originals:

The sculptural and extremely flexible RIM R luminaire range with the futuristic touch (recently winner of the "Interior Innovation Award" at imm cologne 2012)
The new Office Air LED family of luminaires with increased efficiency and new applications for office workplaces (recent winner of the Good Design Award 2011)
The new TP 30 Knit acoustic panel whose fabric surface possesses a marked haptic appeal (recent winner of the "Innovation Award Architecture Textile Object" awarded by the Heimtextil (Home Textiles) trade fair together with the architecture journals AIT and xia IntelligenteArchitektur)

Be our guest!

Opening hours:
We./ Th./ Fr. 10.00 - 18.00
Saturdays 10.00 - 16.00

Design Post Köln
Home of Design
Deutz-Mülheimer-Straße 22a
50679 Cologne
www.designpost.de

Nimbus Academy 1/2012: New training dates for specialist dealers

In 2011 the Nimbus Group successfully launched its "Nimbus Academy" to a wave of positive feedback. Our series of LED seminars, currently still aimed specifically at specialist dealers, will be continued in 2012 – including, for the first time, seminars outside of Germany.

With its "Nimbus Academy", the company intends to intensify its efforts in disseminating specialist know-how and providing information on the latest developments in LED.next technology. The experience Nimbus has gathered in over 7,000 LED projects from homes, doctors' practices, schools and kindergartens through to offices and corporate headquarters clearly shows the lead enjoyed by Nimbus LED.next luminaires in terms of design, energy concept and technology and also illustrates the high level of expertise in the Nimbus Group. In the interest of a broad-based partnership, Nimbus would like to share its experience as well as its know-how in technical and design aspects. Besides theoretical insights into lighting design, knowledge is gained and extended on the basis of the actual lighting design from a realised project.

The dates for spring 2012:
o 05.03.12 – IJburg office building on Steigereiland, Amsterdam (NL)
o 12.03.12 – ÖWG Wohnbau headquarters, Graz (AT)
o 19.03.12 – Design Post, Cologne
o 26.03.12 – Technical University, Munich
o 05.04.12 – Base-Net Informatik AG, Sursee (CH)

Our practice seminar is aimed at specialist dealers with good basic knowledge of LEDs who would like to extend their practical knowledge.
If you are interested please contact seminare@nimbus-group.com

TURN ON: Architecture festival in Vienna on 09th and 10th March

The renowned Vienna architecture festival TURN ON offered once again at the ORF RadioKulturhaus Vienna two days jam-packed with presentations on the occasion of its tenth jubilee. The talks examined current architecture and design from a number of different perspectives and complemented each other in terms of the issues they touch on.

FRIDAY, 09.03.: TURN ON PARTNER
On Friday, the platform put the spotlight on the many and varied prerequisites for building as well as on the differing backgrounds to building projects, thereby also focusing on the complex development processes.
Nimbus has also be involved in the festival in this context. Stefan Huml from Nimbus and Ernst Giselbrecht from the Graz firm of architects Ernst Giselbrecht + Partner gave a presentation in the form of a dialogue entitled "New light quality with LED". The presentation also included a detailed look at the new headquarters of ÖWG Wohnbau in Graz - the first office building in Austria to be lit 100 per cent with LEDs.

SATURDAY, 10.03.: TURN ON
On Saturday, the platform presented a wide-ranging presentation program with leading protagonists in the Austrian architecture scene. It included topical highlights from home and abroad. Renowned architects from Paris and Berlin provided the international context. Dominique Perrault was a guest appearance at TURN ON in connection with the construction of the Vienna DC Towers, and Arno Brandlhuber from Berlin set a counterpoint to the Austrian development in residential construction.

ORGANIZER
Architekturstiftung Österreich
Festival director: Margit Ulama

You will find further information at: www.nextroom.at/turn-on_12/

Nimbus Group supports the exhibition Quartier Quartett Rosenstein

"Quartier Quartett Rosenstein"
A cooperation project.
An exhibition.
An architecture festival.

Four architecture faculties from Baden-Württemberg presented their concepts for shaping Stuttgart's new Rosenstein district in the Wagenhallen in Stuttgart. The works are all by students from the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, the University of Stuttgart, the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Their content ranges from designs for public buildings through to urban installations, and the exhibits take the form of plans, brochures, models and photo documentations.
The Nimbus Group is supporting this innovative cooperation project.

Incidentally, one special, interactive installation in the exhibition is a temporary sauna built to mark the 250th jubilee of the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. Having fulfilled its purpose as an advertising satellite, the Umschichten firm of architects went about remodelling it. Concealed behind a screen in the interior of the sulphur yellow bulk container, there is the sauna cell, a plunge pool and a changing area: on event days, the ideal way of defying the weather and getting your body back up to the right temperature.

You will find more info at:
www.quartier-quartett.de

Training for architects: Lighting design with LED technology in practice

In cooperation with the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architect's Training Institute (IFBau), a further one-day seminar on LED lighting design in practice will be held at the Nimbus Mock-Up Stuttgart on 08.03.2012. The seminar is aimed at architects and interior designers and is recognised as advanced training within the framework of professional practice.

Lighting design with LED technology differs from design with conventional light sources, allowing the designer much more intensive interaction with the room design thanks to the new type of construction. Nowadays, LEDs can be used for virtually any task within the field of interior general lighting. Technically perfected and sustainable products are already available on the market but these need to be identified from among the wide variety of products on offer. This is a prerequisite to realising sophisticated, high quality lighting solutions.

The seminars, given by well-known instructors, (including Prof. Wambsganß, Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences) are structured as follows:
• Basic knowledge: Fundamental concepts of lighting technology, quality criteria for lighting solutions
• Fundamentals of LED technology in general lighting and current technical developments
• Designing with LED technology

The seminars are aimed at architects and interior designers and are recognised as advanced training within the framework of professional practice. You will need to register early due to the limited number of participants!
For further information on the seminars and to register please go to the IFBau webpage

Swissbau 2012: Nimbus Group with new products at leading Swiss construction fair

Swissbau is Switzerland's most important meeting place for the construction and real estate businesses as well as being one of Europe's largest specialist trade fairs. The fair took place from 17th to 21st January 2012 in Basel and the Nimbus Group showed its Nimbus and Rosso brands.

In its capacity as a leading innovator in the field of LED interior lighting and manufacturer of highly flexible shading systems, room-dividing systems and acoustics solutions, the Nimbus Group exhibited in the "OfficeSpace" zone of the Basel Exhibition Centre in Hall 2.0. In this special zone firm of architects and realized together with the exhibition centre management, everything revolves around modern working environments. Here architects, office designers, purchasers and facility managers will find innovations from the fields of office and room concepts or light and acoustics solutions which range right through to materials for floors, walls and ceilings.

The Nimbus Group brought along a number of new and innovative "originals". An overview of the new originals:

The sculptural and extremely flexible RIM R luminaire range with the futuristic touch (recently winner of the "Interior Innovation Award" at imm cologne 2012)
The new Office Air LED family of luminaires with increased efficiency and new applications for office workplaces (recent winner of the Good Design Award 2011)
The new TP 30 Knit acoustic panel whose fabric surface possesses a marked haptic appeal (recent winner of the "Innovation Award Architecture Textile Object" awarded by the Heimtextil (Home Textiles) trade fair together with the architecture journals AIT and xia IntelligenteArchitektur)

Vision of the future in Berlin: Nimbus throws the right light on the project

The architecturally sophisticated Efficiency House Plus with its 136 m² of living space was constructed for information and demonstration purposes and as a research and model project as part of the Zukunft Bau (Future of Construction) research initiative launched by the German Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development. The building was developed in collaboration between the University of Stuttgart's Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) and the architect Werner Sobek; it was the prize-winning design from a total of 16 entries. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Minister Peter Ramsauer attended the opening.

My house, my filling station!
What is so special about the house is that it produces more energy in a year than it consumes. The building produces enough energy to keep the rooms at the right temperature, to heat the water, to run the electrical equipment (household appliances, small devices, multimedia, etc) and to run the electric vehicles.
Nimbus LED.next luminaires are the mainstay for ensuring energy-efficient management of artificial light. They are used for both interior and exterior general lighting. For example, Modul Q 64 Aqua luminaires are used in the hallway, Modul Q 36 luminaires within the house itself and the L 120 has been installed as a suspended luminaire in the kitchen.

"We want promising new ideas, technologies and materials to find their way into daily life faster. That means that we need marketable products that are fit for daily use and that arouse users' enthusiasm," said Minister Peter Ramsauer in explanation of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development's motivation for having the building constructed.

The Efficiency House Plus with electromobility at Fasanenstraße 87, 10623 Berlin can be viewed free of charge until 29th February 2012 (from Tuesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.). The house will not be open from 24th December 2011 to 2nd January 2012. In March a family of four will move in to test the house for one year.

A number of week-long events centring around the topics of energy, efficiency, the environment and construction will be held up to the end of February 2012. On 10th January 2012, the Nimbus Group will be holding a presentation on the use of LED technology. You can take a look at the complete programme here.

The Efficiency House Plus with electromobility is a model project within the framework of the German Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development's building and electromobility research programme.
www.bmvbs.de

Police at Nimbus!

For a few weeks now, there has been an original police Harley from the nineteen forties at the Nimbus Group Mock-Up in Stuttgart.

The machine was in the possession of the Stuttgart motorway police for over six decades and was then presented to the Stuttgart police headquarters in 2007 for its police museum currently under construction at the Pragsattel in Stuttgart. Restoration work went on for three years before the machine could once more be admired in its original condition. We are very pleased to be able to display this rare exhibit on our premises until the police museum opens!

The motorbike was in service for "Motorised Division 20" on the motorways around Stuttgart until the mid-fifties. Following the total collapse of public order at the end of the 2nd World War in 1945, the Allies took charge of all police affairs. Increasing traffic on the motorways required police supervision and so the Stuttgart motorway police was established on 17.10.1946 as a result of a decree by the US military government. The new unit was based at Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart Möhringen.

The Americans presented the state police with the Harley, a Pretzel Beetle and a small truck. On 27th May 1947, the US military government returned sole authority for police affairs in the US zone to the German police. The unit and the Harley moved to a new barrack-like building, where the Sindelfinger Wald motorway service station now stands.

Incidentally, there is a short anecdote concerning the bike: It is said that mid-wives used the Harley to get around Stuttgart before it entered police service. But with a weight of 300 kilograms, the machine was not really very practical for the mid-wives. And the (male) Nimbus team found out for themselves just how heavy 300 kilograms really is when they physically manhandled the Harley into the Mock-Up!

Here is the technical data on the Harley for all motorbike fans:
Type: Harley Davidson WLA
Year constructed: 1941
Motor: V2 45° Flathead, 743 ccm
Performance: 23.5 HP at4600/RPM
Gears: 3 gears
Top speed: 105 km/h
Price (1941): US $ 380

Product innovation: modified and extended Modul L 63 range

Publication of the new Nimbus LED catalogue saw modifications and extensions to the Modul L 63 range of ceiling luminaires, a model ideally suited to use in corridors. In the most significant change, the mounting alternatives for this elongated luminaire have been perfected.

At just 10 mm high, this very slim LED.next ceiling luminaire is also available for direct mounting. Since being revised, this mounting method allows invisible, fixed installation besides simply reversible magnetic fastening.

Moreover, the Modul L 63 is also available with a surface-mounting housing made of brilliant white plastic. A further variant is the Modul L 63 IN for virtually flush recessed mounting in ceilings. This model comes in three different frames: brushed stainless steel, an anodised silver finish or brilliant white.

In terms of form, Modul L 63 luminaires seamlessly complement Modul Q and R models. The ceiling luminaires from the Modul L 63 range are made of translucent acrylic glass and, thanks to their unique light characteristic with outer-edge illumination, are particularly suited for providing efficient, wide-area general lighting for living spaces and workplaces. Besides its elongated shape, the Modul L 63 features a special kind of light distribution with its 63 patented conical indentations: these indentations are angled out 10° from the middle and produce a significantly wider radiation pattern. The luminaire is therefore ideal for use in corridors or areas in which wider light source spacing is necessary.

You will find more detailed information on the Modul L 63 range here.

Altogether, the recently published Nimbus LED catalogue 08/2011 contains over 50 new luminaires and variants.

Nimbus supports the Electronics Inventors Club Stuttgart

The official opening of the Electronics Inventors Club (EEC) club room took place at the Nimbus Group's Mock-Up in Stuttgart at the end of October. The EEC is a group of young pupils who get together to research, understand and recreate (among other things) electronic phenomena and interrelationships. These young pioneers have set themselves up in a small, completely equipped electronics laboratory at the Nimbus Group Mock-Up – with soldering irons, converters, phase testers and LED PCBs along with many other items that a creative boffin might need!

The club room will give the inventors free rein to try out their ideas – whereby they will not only rely on trial and error but will also have the opportunity to exchange know-how with the Nimbus development and design team. However, Nimbus will be neither nanny nor the fount of all knowledge, as the most stunning inventions are often born out of the recognition of interrelationships during play.

Dietrich Brennenstuhl, founder and CEO of the Nimbus Group, is impressed by the club's commitment. It was only a few months ago that he heard about the EEC and was handed a copy of the 1st club journal. Reminded of his own youth characterised by experimental fervour and the need to understand interrelationships and make improvements wherever possible, he did not hesitate to give the EEC his support, remembering that he and his young friends could often have benefited from a little outside help. "As a youth, I tried to extend the transmission range of the remote control for my model glider - unfortunately, with limited success. The plane is still missing today," reminisces Dietrich Brennenstuhl, who has been a proud honorary member of the Electronics Inventors Club since the opening of the club room.

More information about the Electronics Inventors Club: elektronikerfinderclub.wordpress.com/

We hope that the Electronics Inventors Club enjoys experimenting and we can't wait to see the inventions they come up with!

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