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Curved LED ribbons suspended in Terminal 1 marketplace hall

Munich Airport Terminal 1, Module B

Munich

They land, clear security, look up, and there it is: 28 metres of Bavaria arching overhead.

They fly in from Dubai, Doha, New York, Lagos. They clear security, step onto Level 04, and look up. Three curved LED ribbons hang overhead: 28 metres of Bavaria, arching through the Module B.

What we built

Three curved LED ribbons suspend from the ceiling of the Module B: 13, 9 and 6 meters long, double-sided where the space opens both ways, single-sided where the sightline is fixed. The creative principle is From Pixel to Palette: pixels gather, form patterns, and dissolve into landscape panoramas, the Olympiapark, the Englischer Garten, the Zugspitze in spring, the Isar River, Berchtesgaden. Paper planes drift across all three ribbons at once. A flock of birds follows. Running through every transition is the Raute, Bavaria’s diamond, recast in glass. The building and the story become one language.

The challenge

Communicate a regional identity to an audience that is almost entirely international and long-haul, most of them arriving in Bavaria for the first time, with no shared frame of reference to build on.

We watched people who had just flown eleven hours stop dead and reach for their phones. That reaction is the whole job.
Nik Benner, Accounts Director, TSC

Credits

COMMISSION & PRODUCTION

Client

Flughafen München GmbH

THE STORYTELLING COMPANY

Concept & Design

Concept

Engineering & Project Management

Planning

Content Production

Content Production

Delivery & Launch

Build & Delivery

PARTNERS

Steelwork

Zeeh Design

LED

Unilumin

Control

Novastar

Consulting

Architects Company