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Newsletter – September 2008 »
Visual Vaule of Light |
Daylight as an Art Form
Evidence-based Healthcare Lighting Design
Focusing Light on Sleep
Visual Value of Light |
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Explaining the Financial Value of Great Lighting Design to Your Projects
In a time when everyone is working to get projects done within their budgets, it’s increasingly important to have a lighting designer on board early in the project. The impact of light on designed areas is greater than the finishes, and often costs less.
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Jonathan Speirs, PLDA, RIBA, ARIAS, Hon. FSLL FRSA - Director
Paul Gregory, IESNA - President
- Lighting Designers play an integral role on the design team. Often, lighting design is an afterthought, and made within the constraints already established.
- It is important that Lighting Designers get involved early on in the project to ensure that they can incorporate lighting into the architecture of the building. .
- Good lighting design can have a big impact on the overall finished look of the project.
- The visual impact of light can be greater than the finishes within the space (and cost less).
- Lighting can help create an iconic status of a project.
- “All you see is reflected light”. Otherwise, you don’t see the objects; you see the light bouncing off of the objects into your eye. Light makes you see the materials.
- Push the concept for a more successful design.
- A well designed project in every aspect, including lighting, will bring a greater overall value to the project.
- A lot of photographs of architecture are night time shots with the lights on or interior shots with the lights on. Lighting helps dramatize architecture.
- Daylight produces different effects through different times of the day.
- Different levels of lighting design:
- Illuminating Engineering – Numbers
- Basic Architectural Lighting Design – basic cutsheets/layout
- Enhanced Architectural Lighting Design
- Enhanced Architectural Lighting Design should have unlimited involvement
- Creative Process
- Common Vision
- Study Reflective Surfaces
- “First Looks”
- Details
- Involvement
- Designs around the world should be better – “Bar has been raised”. People are expecting more.
- If you get the concept right and everybody agrees, then the project will succeed.
- The lighting designer should help express the architect’s visual image.
- Client’s aspiration
- Iconic Image
- Verbal Marketing
- Powerful Memories
- Light brings people in – first sell.
- Lighting designer test the concept.
- Common vision of the overall process
- Needs to be project wide, including architecture and lighting
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