Yellow, Good, Economic
Ryanair also shows its colours in Bremen

Michael O`Leary likes things quick and simply efficient. Within a few years the boss of the Irish airline Ryanair, transformed the small regional carrier into Europe’s biggest “low cost“ airline. Since then, the yellow of the Celtic harp has been offering price-conscious air passengers a low-cost route over the clouds. In Bremen, too, where a “wing hovering on the wall” allows the corporate identity to shine out as a destination from a great distance. Designed from the architects Bruns + Hayungs from Bremen, Carsten Diekmann, executive director of DIEKMANN LICHT-Werbung GmbH based in Stuhr near Bremen, constructed the customised terminal entrance, which achieves its full impact in the evening hours: "We were faced with a construction problem by the multiple deviations in the floor of the canopy, as the whole surface had to illuminated downwards."EPS.LUMI aluminium profiles, which were simply screwed to the galvanised steel construction, provided the solution. "We have been using the profile system successfully for a number of years, because it is well thought out and can be used in a variety of applications", says the designer, Diekmann. Using this method, even the floor of the canopy could be tensioned with fabric.

For the front and side surfaces, Diekmann used painted aluminium sheets with yellow high-voltage luminescent tubes arranged in front of them. The side-facings of the entrance were constructed of triple-skin makrolon sheets covered in yellow film. "The illuminated lettering TERMINAL E was lit up using white LED's", says Carsten Diekmann. His summing up: "EPS tensioning technology is simply perfect and, in actual fact, no alternative exists. Plexiglas would not have been suitable for use in the downward displays, because of the broadly bar-free configuration of the surfaces. Additionally, it would not have provided a wind-breakage proof solution. Plus the fact that concealed attachment of the surface facings was only possible with tensioning technology."

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