Installation with 136 special Blow Me Up at Light + Building, Frankfurt
From Product to Project
SPORTHAUS SCHUSTER Munich
For the 2018 Light & Building trade fair, the Ingo Maurer team designed a “ceiling” for our stand made
of 136 inflatable “Blow Me Up” lamps, which were fitted with special programmable RGBW-LED tech-
nology featuring complex controls. Thanks to the software, the colour and brightness of each individual
LED can be adjusted and programmed. Ingo Maurer and team created eight settings, playing with geo-
metric shapes in strong colours or mimicking clouds passing a blue sky.
This concept was further developed for the retail space of Sporthaus Schuster in Munich. The installation
leads customers from the existing to the new retail spaces of the established sports store. Theo
Möller and the Ingo Maurer team developed a robust version of the Blow Me Up with 102 inflatable
light elements installed above the entrance area.
The lighting control software facilitates design with adjustable parameters at all stages: The features
of a building and the needs of the client can be tested and adjusted with the graphical user interface
until the installation is a perfect fit. When the client’s needs change, a redesign of the light setting
can accommodate these with a relatively low extra investment.
Beam Me Up Designed by Theo Möller
Special design for projects only (B1 fire protection
class). Each inflatable Beam Me Up is fitted with an
addressable RGBW LED strip with 99 LEDs. The light
fixtures are mounted on suspended ceiling boards
which carry the cables and computer equipment.
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