IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering PAPER • OPEN ACCESS Lighting Heritage Building Practice in George Town, Penang Island To cite this article: Safial Aqbar Zakaria et al 2018 IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 401 012005 View the article online for updates and enhancements. This content was downloaded from IP address 170.106.40.219 on 25/09/2021 at 08:03 2nd International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering (ICACE 2018) IOP Publishing IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering1234567890 401 (2018)‘’“” 012005 doi:10.1088/1757-899X/401/1/012005 Lighting Heritage Building Practice in George Town, Penang Island 1Safial Aqbar Zakaria 2Mohd Jaki Mamat 3Lim Shu Chern 4Chong Mun Hong 5Wang Zi Xuan 6 Siti Nur Ayat Shafie School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800, Penang E-mail:
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[email protected] Abstract. In this technological era, lighting fixtures are can be seen anywhere in the city to accommodate its specific functions or to achieve some purposes in any forms and colours. The patterns and arrangements of the lighting fixtures on the buildings and structures at night creating a sense of art which emphasizes the nature or the potential of the buildings. Nowadays, lighting designers tend to put more lighting fixtures into their design to give a better outlook and as an attraction for tourism at night. In some manners, light art is like a rose that has thorns on it. The public nowadays appreciate the beauty of light art without realizing the harm that stays under the exposure of colourful bright light designs.