Lighting up the imagination

Architects are always searching for new ideas and inspiration, new shapes, colors, textures or materials. The Trespa Perspectives concept shows architects and designers how Trespa panels can be adapted, changed, molded and fixed in different ways. The purpose is to create aesthetically different facades without altering the fundamental characteristics and performance of the product. Changing the appearance so that it becomes three-dimensional adds greater interest, depth and movement.

Light is an art form. The ever changing play of sunlight and shadow over a building accents and alters the facade. Now, Trespa has introduced the new concept of combining Meteon panels with Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). The Trespa Perspectives Light concept, developed in consultation with a professional lighting partner, is being launched at several major building exhibitions.

Combining LEDs and Trespa Meteon cladding panels is a cost effective and environmentally friendly method of changing the character of a facade in a simple and extremely dramatic way. The LEDs are easy to fix and, like Meteon, are highly durable and weatherproof. By using artificial light to accentuate curves, joints and colors, to give shape to shadows and character to spaces and surfaces, interesting new dimensions and effects can be achieved. All the elements combine to create many different interplays between light and cladding.

This means that the building, stunning by day, can have an equally stunning but quite different character at night.

Thanks to the unique properties of LEDs, i.e. their bright colors, compact dimensions, low power consumption, UV and infrared free light, easy controllability and long (50,000 light hours and more are achievable values), LEDs have come to be used in a wide range of applications.  In addition, LEDs develop little heat, making them easy to use.  LEDs are available in the following single colors: warm white, white, blue, green, yellow and red.  All colors of the color spectrum can be programmed in RGB.

The LED strips are the only elements of the system that are located on the exterior building facade. The control device is located inside the building. Since only 12V/24V is required on the outside of the building, in most countries no special rules or legislation have to be taken into account.

The LED strips can be extended quite easily by interlinking them.

LED strips are not supplied by Trespa, we only show a few design solutions.