Lighting Design Flashcards
The process of planning and implementing the use of artificial and natural light in various environments to achieve specific aesthietics, functional, and psychological effects.
Lighting Design
Different types of lighting
Ambient
Task
Accent
Can enhance the user expeeience, improve safety, and create a specific ambiance.
Lighting Design
General lighting that provides uniform illumination to a space, it ensures basic visibiloty and allows people to navigate and perform tasks comfortably.
Ambient Lighting
Providing concentrated illumination to specific work areas or tasks, such as reading, cooking, workin at a desk. Brighter and mor localized the ambient ligjting.
Task lighting
Used to highlight particular objects, archi features, or artwork to create visual interest and focal points whithin space
Accent lighting
Serves as an aesthetic purpose and contributes to overall design scheme or theme of a space.
Decorative Lighting
Illuminating a large, vertical surface evenly to create a smooth, uniform glow. This technique helps visually expand the space, enhance textures, and provide a sense of arch unity.
Wall washing
Used to emphasize the texture or relief of a surface, siuch as a textured wall or achitectural details.
Grazing
Technique where the lighting is placed behind an object or person, creating a dark outline or silhoutte against brighter background.
Silhouetting
It involves placing placing fixtures in elevated positions, such as trees or arch features.
Moonlighting
The simplest and most basic lighting system.
On/off lighting system
They provide the ability to create various lighting scenes, from brughter settings for task-oriented activities.
Dimming systems
Offer advanced control capabilities.
Programmable lighting systems
Color changing systems enable the manipulation of light color to create dynamic and visually captivating environments.
Color changing systems
Integrate natural daylight into the overall lighting design and control
Daylight harvesting systems
Collecting sunlight using static, non moving, non tracking systems (such as windows, sliding glass doors, most skylights, light tubes)
Passive daylighting
Collecting sunlight using a mechanical device to increase the efficiency of light collection for given lighting purposes
Active daylighting
These are high, vertically placed windows
Clerestory windows
Vertical roof glass facing away from equator side of the building to capture diffused light.
Sawtooth roof
Light transmetting fenestration (products filling openings in a building envelope which alsp includes windows, dors etc.
Skylights
A large open space located within a building, it is often used to light a central circulation or public area by daylight admitted through glass or wall
Atrium
Walls made of glass brick are translucent-to-transparent.
Translucent walls
Project beyond the shadow created by the eave and reflects sunlight upward to illuminate the ceiling.
Light shelves
Also called tubular daylighting device (TDD), which is placed into the roof and admits light to a focused area interior.
Light tubes
Track the sun by relying on a set of lens or sensors with a limited field of view, directed at the sun.
Cloed loop sytems
Track the sun without physically following the sun via sensors
Open loop systems
An electrical device containing an electric lamp that provides illumination.
Light fixtures
Parts of light fixtures
Wiring
Junction Box
Lamp holder
Lamp
Reflector
Lens
Trim/Flange
Electrical wiring, which provides power to the luminaire
Wiring
Provides a location to connect the wiring that comes from the power source with the internal wirng for the light fixtures
Junction Box
Receptacle that the lamp screws into
Lamp Holder
Often refers to as the light bulb
Lamp
Provides a reflective surface to direct the light from the lamp out into the space
Reflector
A transparent or translucent material used to direct or diffuse light.
Lens
A decorative element that is detachable
Trim/flange
Is mounted in a light cove, which is built above the ceiling at the intersection of the ceiling and the wall.
Recessed Cove Lighting Fixtures
Hang from the ceiling and are usually suspended from cables
Indirect pendant
Also hangs from ceiling, but it directs light uo and down
Direct pendant
Are recessed light with reflectors that direct the light foward the wall.
Wall wash light fixtures
Decorative fixture that is mounted to a wall
Wall sconce
Generic description for lights that are used to illuminate specific tasks.
Task lighting
Is the international standard filetype for providing luminaire light distribution information.
IES
Main format used in Europe
EULUMDAT
Format used primarily in Great Britain
CIBSE
Occasionally used in autodesk products such as 3ds max
LTLI
