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Importance of Architectural Lighting the Way Lighting Can Help Bring Value to the Function of Architecture Importance of Architectural Lighting The way lighting can help bring value to the function of architecture Lighting plays a vital role in the way people experience and understand architecture. Whether buildings and structures are lit naturally or artificially, lighting is the medium that allows us to see and appreciate the beauty in the buildings around us. Lighting can bring an emotional value to archi- how they want people to feel when they walk around tecture—it helps create an experience for those who a space. This aspect is especially important for retail occupy the space. Without lighting, where would locations; exterior lighting should draw the consumer architecture be? Would it still have the same impact? in, and the interior lighting should awe them as No, it wouldn’t. Whether it’s daylighting or artificial they walk through the doors in addition to showing lighting, light draws attention to textures, colors, and off product. forms of a space, helping architecture achieve its true The second aspect, function, cannot be over- purpose. Vision is the single most important sense looked. We want the lighting to look a certain way, through which we enjoy architecture, and lighting but we have to also make sure it serves its most enhances the way we perceive architecture important purpose—to help us see. Areas should be even more. illuminated so occupants feel safe when navigating a To create a successful balance between lighting room or entire building. They should be able to see and architecture, it’s important to remember three the floor and walls around them, which should create key aspects of architectural lighting: (1) aesthetic, a feeling of reassurance. (2) function, and (3) efficiency. Aesthetic is where The final aspect is very important in today’s age of designers and architects focus on the emotional green building and sustainability movements. It’s one impact the balance of lighting and architecture will thing to create a breathtaking lighting layout, but have on occupants. It’s where designers determine 1 it’s another to create a breathtaking layout that is also incredibly energy efficient. This can be done by assuring the majority of the light is reaching its target and there is less wasted light. Reducing the amount of wasted light will make the building more efficient. An easy way this can be done is to install “Buildings and LEDs instead of fluorescent lighting. Because of the technology, there is less wasted light with LEDs than urban spaces should fluorescent due to the directional nature of LEDs. be designed first and RICHARD KELLY (1910-1977): A PIONEER OF MODERN DAY LIGHTING foremost around Architectural lighting design has come a long way, and Richard Kelly was one of the lighting their occupants. pioneers who began using lighting as an architectural element instead of simply using it to light a space. The importance of He trained at the Yale University School of Architecture in the early 1940s, to later tally an impressive architecture as a 300+ projects in his 40-year career. His theories and teachings have changed the face of lighting trigger to physical, design as a profession, and he will remain as one of the most influential people in the industry. physiological and Some of his most well-known projects include: The Glass House (1949), Seagram Building (1958), psychological wellbeing Yale University Art Gallery (1953), Dulles International Airport (1963), Kimbell Art Museum (1969) and is nowadays becoming the Yale Center for British Art (1974). a topic of significant In his lecture titled “Lighting as an Integral Part of Architecture,” (1952) Kelly goes into his three “elemental kinds of light” that still act as the heart of lighting design today.1 relevance.” Dr. Sergio Altomonte Architect and Associate Professor in the ELEMENTAL KINDS of LIGHT Department of Architecture and Built Environment at the Nottingham University 1 Focal Glow — 2 Ambient 3 Play of Brilliants— Luminescence— Today, this kind of light is Also known as accent referred to as task lighting. This is also known as lighting, this layer can be It points out important general or ambient lighting. dynamic and colorful and it elements and draws It’s the background lighting aims to stimulate people attention to areas, all while that illuminates an entire and emotions. space. It should be even making it easier to see. Excerpt about play of and uniform, casting no Excerpt about focal glow brilliants in Kelly’s lecture: shadows and makes people in Kelly’s lecture: “...excites the optic nerves, in the space feel safe. “...directive, creates a and in turn stimulates the brighter center: tells us what Excerpt about ambient body and spirit, quickens the to look at, organizes, marks luminescence in appetite, awakens curiosity, the important element.” Kelly’s lecture: sharpens the wit.” “It [ambient luminescence] minimizes form and bulk. It minimizes the importance of all things and people. It can suggest the freedom of space and can suggest infinity.” 1 Kelly, Richard. “Light as an Integral Part of Architecture.” College Art Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 1952, pp. 24–30. 2 After discussing his theoretical statement main categories of buildings and what each try for lighting, he goes into the “specific qualities to accomplish with lighting. The first group (public attributed to it [light] by the regular occurrence buildings) is comprised of sports arenas, libraries, of specific effects.” The first quality is intensity, or hospitals, etc. These types of buildings are more “Lighting is such a the “total quantity of light flux moving towards a concerned with providing the right amount of large part of the visual surface.” The light arriving at the surface is usually light for tasks and other types of events. Sporting arts—architecture, most measured in footcandles or lux. The second is events like football and baseball require the right of all—that I’m sure the brightness, which is the amount of “light per unit amount of light so the players on the field can see area reflected from or emitted through a surface and so the spectators can see the field. It’s also best we can do today or area.”1 important for when spectators go to and from their will be inadequate The third quality is diffusion. Diffusion is the seats and navigate the rest of the arena/stadium. tomorrow. I can logically reflection of light from a surface such that an It’s the same concept with libraries and hospitals. project a great many In libraries, occupants need to have the proper incident ray is reflected at many angles rather techniques in lighting to light levels to read, write and find books on than just one angle, creating a uniform light improve people’s lives, spread. Kelly describes this quality as being shelves, while hospitals need high light levels for or to make a house “best illustrated by an open white sandy beach doctors and nurses to successfully do their jobs. on an over-all cloudy day.” A large source of The second group (official buildings) is com- more beautiful, but it’s light shouldn’t produce any shadows, and a prised of mainly warehouses and office buildings. all theory until we have small light source will produce sharp shadows. Their number one concern with lighting is the the record of experience, His fourth quality is spectral color, which is efficiency. With the large energy consumption which we are only of those properties, they can’t afford to spend a color that is evoked by a single wavelength of beginning to write.” light in the visible spectrum, or by a narrow band fortune on lighting and the electricity it consumes. of wavelengths (monochromatic light). The fifth And with green building trends on the rise, Richard Kelly and sixth are direction and motion. Direction it’s important to have energy-efficient and 1958 refers to the direction of light relative to eyelevel, sustainable lighting. as motion refers to the “movement of light, real The third and final group (specialized and implied.” When observing the direction of buildings) is comprised of museums, theaters, lighting, studies have shown that the placement casinos, etc. These buildings rely heavily on of light sources can make people feel different atmosphere and the experiences they can ways. Kelly describes that lighting placed above provide. They are concerned with enhancing eyelevel can produce a feeling of restraint the appearance of architectural spaces and to create a “formal atmosphere.” But lighting elements. When people go to a theater to placed below eyelevel can create a feeling of see a play or musical, they are expecting an “individual human importance,” creating an experience before the show even begins. They informal atmosphere. want to see a beautiful chandelier welcoming them in the lobby, lavish wall sconces lighting HOW LIGHT AND ARCHITECTURE the hallway to their seats, and the area around WORK TOGETHER the stage to be lit to accentuate statues, pillars Before we get into how light and architecture and other architectural features. impact one another, it’s important to know the 3 Lighting Spatial Borders Common Architectural Elements To enhance architectural elements and evoke Architects use many different types of emotions, it’s important to understand spatial materials to alter the way light enters a building borders and how to properly light them. To and the way artificial light interacts with interior enhance vertical borders for example, light should architecture. One of the most common structural be directed towards wall surfaces. If there is a materials is glass. Whether it’s the use of wall that is a different texture, or simply one that completely transparent or translucent glass the occupants should notice more than others, materials, glass can have many different effects wall washing is a great tool (Image A).
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