Summit Meeting: "Menn" at work
Luminous advertising in vertiginous heights

While gazing straight ahead in a concentrated fashion, one foot is carefully placed in front of the other. At a height of 24 meters keeping one’s nerve is of the essence; don’t look down, whatever you do. What might look like an adventurous balancing act in a garden of tightropes is actually the installation of a light box being attached to the roof of a Volksbank branch in Heilbronn.
The protagonists led by project leader Ralf Menn from Menn Werbetechnik, Bad Friedrichshall, deposited the illuminated object (overall width: 4.30 m, height: 1.30 m) “coolly and safely” at its lofty destination. Particular difficulties were provided by a canted, impassable glass surface positioned directly underneath the luminous object, which nonetheless needed to serve as a worktop for the installation. „After some deliberation we covered the glass surface with MDF boards, in order to provide us with a stable ground for the installation“, explains Ralf Menn. The boards, Menn explains next, were lifted to the roof with a 40 meter crane. An additional scaffolding platform took care of the required safety. Most of the components were ultimately carried up inside the building and then moved to the roof-mounted advertising installation using a safety harness and sliding rail. The advertising object itself of course also found its way through the building and was subsequently reassembled on top of the roof from its previously numbered component parts.

A total of 3,000 light tile-mounted LED´s were installed in the object’s interior to an overall casing depth of merely 40 mm. This way the luminous surface could be lighted in an even, geometric manner. A special challenge: the light installation runs halfway around the building, across a 100° outer corner. Ralf Menn: „We installed a polished acrylic glass rib featuring two special holding angles in order to get round the corner seamlessly and jointlessly. This was then covered with a backlit fabric tensioned using the EPS.LUMI profiles“. The result is certainly an impressive achievement.

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