Client
Town of Tuttlingen

Architecture (Implementation)
Town of Tuttlingen

Interior Design (Design)
DAY & LIGHT

Visualization
DAY & LIGHT

Completion
expected 2027

Project Team DAY & LIGHT
Frank Bernhard Vetter
Thorben Hansson

In the course of renovating the station hall, underpass, and facades, the lighting design develops a distinctive new design feature: light becomes the central medium, choreographing movement, orientation, and stays, transforming the previously purely functional traffic areas into high-quality urban spaces.

The underpass, previously a low-lying connection dominated by bulky railway troughs and concrete surfaces, is given new spatial readability through a new interior design and lighting concept. With few structural interventions, portals with golden surfaces are created, accentuating the low passageways and giving them an almost sculptural effect. In contrast, walls and ceilings are finished in an intense blue, supported by a precisely managed lighting concept.

This blue continues into the balustrade of the entrance hall. The blue stairwell becomes a clear, minimalist object in the line of sight, intensely illuminated and highlighted from the ceiling of the station hall. This creates a strong visual link between the hall and the underpass – a new, striking motif that gives the station its own identity and recognisability as a city portal.

In the station hall itself, raking light models the brick walls. The volume of the space is generously emphasised, while the materiality is clearly highlighted through light-and-shadow contrasts. The design for interior architecture and lighting demonstrates how the targeted interplay of light and surface creates a sustainable, high-quality spatial effect without complex structural interventions.