22 Den Haag HS, Tunable white in the train hall

The train hall of Den Haag HS was built by architect Margadant, just like Haarlem station, though the former has been preserved to a lesser degree. The (train hall) roof of the train hall was burned in the past. A new imitation wooden ceiling was installed. A square (made of black profiles) hangs from the decorative ceiling with downlighters and several spotlights illuminating the walls. The spotlights are often faulty or no longer aimed properly (due to vibrations of the tracks). The square with downlighters feels like a suspended ceiling, removing the height of the monumental train hall from the passenger's experience.

NS and ProRail asked Ruland Architecten to draft a plan for a quality impulse for the train hall and tunnel. Part of this plan is to return the lighting in the train hall to the way it was in 1950.

The square is replaced with 4 large chandeliers (with a diameter of approx. 2.5 metres). The LED tubes in the chandeliers shine in all directions, illuminating not only the floor but the walls and ceiling as well. A prototype of the chandeliers was tested in the factory in 2022. A lighting calculation revealed that the 4 chandeliers with 15 LED tubes each (2500 Lm / 25W per tube amounts to 375W per chandelier) deliver sufficient lumen output to illuminate the train hall floor at 100 lux in accordance with RLN00012.

Tips and conclusions:

Many monumental stations got cluttered In the seventies and eighties.

Clearing the clutter creates a sense of peace and order.

A couple of large fixtures are much more exciting than lots of small ones.