Outdoor lighting of the area in front of the railway station in Pardubice

Jan Perner Square and the adjoining public space in front of the railway station in Pardubice is a significant transportation hub and one of the gateways to the city. Within the urban composition of the city, this area forms a distinct spatial element designed as a view termination of the main urban axis from the Renaissance Pernštýn Square through Míru Street and the pulsating urban Palacký Street. The dominant feature of the square is the listed functionalist building of the main railway station with the hotel as a vertical landmark. The architects of the main station building along with the hotel and cinema are Karel Řepa, Karel Kalvoda, and Josef Danda.

The fundamental aspects of the proposed and implemented revitalization of Jan Perner Square and the surrounding area are clarity, safety, human scale, and respect for the listed railway station building. The linear space is designed to meet the needs of users with a public transport terminal, organized into zones with a clearly structured usage regime: terminal, K+R parking, dedicated taxi stand, bicycle storage, and relaxation areas. The public lighting solution for part of Palacký Street was also included in the addressed area.

Lighting Concept

The outdoor lighting solution is conceived in accordance with the structure of the individual functional zones.

• In the terminal area, public lighting is combined with traction on shared poles. The geometry and arrangement of the combined poles are designed so that the resulting shape and appearance are harmonious and not just a mere "sum of the geometries" of the two supporting structures, as often happens. The combined poles have a conical shape and, to achieve a sense of delicacy, they always rise above the last fixed element. The shape of the brackets is not straight, but rounded, and their profile corresponds to the shape of the luminaire.
• The lighting of the spacious pedestrian area in front of the station building is inspired by the character of the lighting on the adjacent rail yard areas. Spotlights installed on the lighting conical poles are used to illuminate this space.
• For the lighting of pedestrian paths in the adjoining relaxation zone with a fountain and the dedicated parking lot, luminaires of the same shape are used, placed at a lower height.
• The fountain lighting, a dominant feature of the relaxation zone, uses point LED lights underwater to evoke stars in the night sky reflected on the water surface. The fountain's jet is illuminated separately.
• The most striking newly introduced object in the addressed public space is the terminal roof. Its main artistic motif is a pronounced horizontality referring to the cornice above the entrances to the station building. A continuous LED module is installed around the edge of the ceiling slab, the light from which reflects off the surface of the pavement, evenly and moderately illuminating the white ceiling of the roof and visually lightening it.

Lighting Solution

All luminaires for public and festive lighting are equipped with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with a replacement color temperature Tcp = 4000K and a color rendering index Ra ≥ 70. The lifespan of the LEDs in public lighting fixtures is L90B10 = 100,000 hours. Public lighting fixtures are equipped with autonomous regulation that is set according to the designed operational mode. Architectural lighting is turned on together with public lighting and is turned off at 24:00. The installed power of public lighting is 8 kW, while the power of other outdoor lighting (architectural lighting, fountain, terminal roof) is 4.6 kW.

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