Architecture Lighting

LIGHTING

Function

Ambience

Comfort

LIGHTING
Entrance
Entrance should be
well lit for safety
purpose.

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Doorways
A wall fixture is the obvious
solution by a doorway for new
construction
Concealing the light source
particularly in the case of on an
existing building where concealing
cable may be difficult.

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Garage and Driveway
Avoid glare to the driver pathway.
Well lit pathways.
If drive be tree lined, moonlighting
is an option

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Paths and Steps
Designed to provide orientation.
Special care should be given to
illuminating steps and level changes
Make user feel safe and
comfortable

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TECHNIQUES

1. Path
Lighting
*This technique is used

primarily for safety to highlight

sidewalks, drives, or any path to
ensure safe pedestrian passage
at night.

*Typical fixtures: mushrooms,

tulip light, lantern, specialty
lights

3. Underwater
*Lighting
Underwater lighting highlights
underwater plant material and captures
light to show off depth or imaginative
design.

* It increases the aesthetic value and also

ensures safety.

2.
*Step/Deck
Step lighting brings deck to life in
night and help us to navigate stairs
safely during night.
Lighting

*Its fixtures can be installed beneath

benches, as recessed light in the
risers of step and as a surface lights
on vertical posts.

. UP Lighting

5. down Lighting

* Uplighting means to light

something from below.

*Uplighting is rarely seen in nature

yet this effect is typically used to
highlight the trees, statues etc.

*Mirroring the effect of the sun or the

moon, downlighting is the most natural
form of landscape lighting.

*The Downlighting effect is used to

* and to produce large shadows
and dramatic facades or to wash
walls with light.

provide general illumination for safety,

security or outdoor entertainment or it
can be used to focus on a singular
object such as a statue or specimen
tree.

6. Architectural
Lighting

*The techniques of architectural

lighting are used to emphasize the
variation in texture as well as
architectural features in brick and
stone work, soffit details and facade.

*Architectural lighting can also be

used to enhance gateways, statues

Architectural Lighting
*Spotlighting or
Highlighting
* Silhouette
* Shadowing
* Grazing Light

Silhouetting
Silhouetting is created when the image of a distinctive
plant, tree, statue or other landscape object is reflected
against a wall or other vertical surface. Lights are placed
behind the plant material or object to and direct the light
upward onto the backdrop to create this dramatic effect.
Shadowing
This effect creates a visual similar to silhouetting;
however; the fixture is positioned in front of the plant or
object rather than behind it. Since the shadow of the
object is often magnified the effect can be more dramatic
than silhouetting.
Grazing Light
Grazing light is utilized to highlight and enhance the
textures of interesting surfaces such as cobblestone,
masonry, stucco or tree bark. Hooded fixtures with wide
beam spread lamps are ideal for this technique.

SHADOWS
SHADOW THROUGH COLUMNS
As per Louis Kahn, Greek architecture
introduces the concept of light,
no-light through columns.
In ancient times columns showed people
the
day time through the length of shadows
In modern times it is used both for visual
effect
and light obstruction apart from
structural
element.

SHADOWS

Mostly jalis are aesthetic usage of light and shadow

Jalis create patterned shadows over a building or on the
exterior
In some cases they are used to bring in or allow partial light
Jalis reduces the intensity of light.

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LIGHT AND SHADOWS THROUGH TRANSLUCENT BARRIERS

Light can travel through any medium. Therefore architects use

this property of light to emphasize their architecture.
Translucent materials serve as a filter to the direct sunlight
hence making the inner spaces pleasant and comfortable

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FOCUS OF LIGHT

Light shadows sometimes play as black and white/ good

or bad
Walls or ceiling cut outs focuses the source of light
These pictures include usage of light and shadow as a
form of giver for silent spaces
As per Louis Kahn- Even a space intended to be dark
should have just enough light from some mysterious
opening to tell us how dark it really is.

SHADOWS

Apart from being structural elements arches also

show light and shadow technique performed by architects
Shadows created by arches in some cases increases or
decreases the depth of the path it follows
Louis Kahn The outside belongs to the sun and on the
inside people live and work. In order to avoid protection
from the sun I invented the idea of a deep intrados that
protects the cool shadow.

The Sun never knew how great it was

until it hit the side of a buildingLouis Khan

Presentation by:
Subbalakshmi
Nikhila