BESPOKE LIGHTING FOR NEW MUNICH MULTIFUNCTIONAL SPORTS ARENA
Dornbirn, Austria – A dynamic building façade, a striking asymmetrical shape and space for up to 11,500 spectators – with the SAP Garden, Munich’s Olympic Park is not only gaining a new multifunctional arena, but also expanding the sporting diversity of the historic site. From late summer 2024, SAP Garden will offer two German champion teams and the general public a new sporting home spanning a total floor space of over 70,000 m². EHC Red Bull München, who boast several German ice hockey league titles, will play all their home games at the Olympic Park.
The sports venue’s unique shape was designed by Danish architects 3XN, while the landscape architects from Latz + Partner ensured that the new building blends harmoniously into the park landscape. The SAP Garden’s appearance is shaped by its organic design and green roof, in keeping with the spirit of the 1972 „democratic green“ Olympic Games to remain true to the original vision for the Olympic Park.
The client, Red Bull Stadion GmbH, brought in the lighting experts from the Zumtobel Group brands Thorn and Zumtobel to ensure that the SAP Garden is optimally staged from day one and offers intuitive visitor guidance. Based on a lighting design by Licht Kunst Licht AG, a lighting solution was developed that is perfectly matched to the customer’s brand staging.
Red Bull has created a modern, world-class location with the SAP Garden, which will add another attraction to Munich’s Olympiapark in the future. More than any other brand, Red Bull stands for the fusion of sports and events, which is also reflected in the SAP Garden. We are delighted to be able to enhance the Red Bull brand experience with our light.
— Alfred Felder, CEO of the Zumtobel Group
With their lighting solution, Thorn and Zumtobel are responsible for staging all areas outside the ‘Bowl’ event hall itself. For Zumtobel, this includes the fan stores and brand shops, team cabins and wellness zones, the office and conference rooms, as well as the catering area. Numerous lighting tools from the Zumtobel portfolio are utilised here. Thorn’s portfolio provides the street and walkway lighting for the site as well as the luminaires on the roof terrace.
In addition to the main rink, SAP Garden offers three smaller, year-round ice rinks for training and recreational sports. The building also includes fan stores and brand shops, team cabins and wellness zones for sportspeople as well as offices and conference rooms.
The official opening took place on 27 September 2024 with a game between EHC Red Bull München and the Buffalo Sabres from the NHL.
Zumtobel Group AG
The Zumtobel Group aims to create wellbeing and improve people’s quality of life through light – as a group, and through all its individual brands, Thorn, Tridonic and Zumtobel. As a leading supplier of innovative lighting solutions, the Group offers its customers around the world a comprehensive portfolio, where the focus is invariably on people and their needs. The company’s know-how about the effects of light on people, acquired over decades, forms the basis for sustainable and future-oriented lighting solutions that are increasingly energy- and resource-efficient while providing the best possible quality of light. The Group is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange (ATX Prime) and currently holds a workforce of around 5,300 employees. In the 2023/24 financial year, the company posted
revenues of EUR 1,127.0 million. The Zumtobel Group is based in Dornbirn in the Vorarlberg region of Austria. For further information, please visit z.lighting.
Zumtobel
Our passion is to create quality lighting solutions that deliver total perfection. We are driven by a conviction that the right kind of light can create the right atmosphere in a building at any time of day or night. When tailored to people’s individual needs, light becomes something of an experience. We are always exploring new ways to come up with
inimitable and timeless designs and are inspired by a unique creative ambition. When working on the lighting of tomorrow, we are driven by our innovative corporate philosophy of continuously improving the aesthetics of light. With passion, a sense of beauty and a forward-looking approach, we are constantly seeking to use light to help improve people’s quality of life. The Zumtobel brand is part of Zumtobel Group AG, based in Dornbirn in the
Vorarlberg region of Austria.
Thorn Lighting
With almost 100 years of experience in manufacturing and supplying reliable, efficient and high-quality solutions, Thorn Lighting can make light work for you. Our extensive product and technology portfolio ensures we can meet the needs of all application areas, including education, health and care, urban space and architecture, sports, office, retail, roads, and tunnels. Our unrivalled expertise and user-friendly products can also be found in the ThornEco range, which offers cost-effective luminaires for the wholesale market. Thorn Lighting’s expert staff provide first-class support for customers, whether they are electricians, installers, specifiers, end users, local authorities, or lighting designers. So, if you’re looking for a partner committed to sustainable, connected, and responsible lighting, choose Thorn because we know lighting inside and out. For more information, please visitthornlighting.com.
Source: ZUMTOBEL Group
