Lighting Design

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The process of planning and implementing the use of artificial and natural light in various environments to achieve specific aesthietics, functional, and psychological effects.

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Lighting Design

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Different types of lighting

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Ambient
Task
Accent

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Can enhance the user expeeience, improve safety, and create a specific ambiance.

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Lighting Design

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General lighting that provides uniform illumination to a space, it ensures basic visibiloty and allows people to navigate and perform tasks comfortably.

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Ambient Lighting

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Providing concentrated illumination to specific work areas or tasks, such as reading, cooking, workin at a desk. Brighter and mor localized the ambient ligjting.

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Task lighting

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Used to highlight particular objects, archi features, or artwork to create visual interest and focal points whithin space

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Accent lighting

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Serves as an aesthetic purpose and contributes to overall design scheme or theme of a space.

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Decorative Lighting

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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.

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Wall washing

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Used to emphasize the texture or relief of a surface, siuch as a textured wall or achitectural details.

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Grazing

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Technique where the lighting is placed behind an object or person, creating a dark outline or silhoutte against brighter background.

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Silhouetting

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It involves placing placing fixtures in elevated positions, such as trees or arch features.

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Moonlighting

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The simplest and most basic lighting system.

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On/off lighting system

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They provide the ability to create various lighting scenes, from brughter settings for task-oriented activities.

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Dimming systems

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Offer advanced control capabilities.

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Programmable lighting systems

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Color changing systems enable the manipulation of light color to create dynamic and visually captivating environments.

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Color changing systems

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Integrate natural daylight into the overall lighting design and control

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Daylight harvesting systems

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Collecting sunlight using static, non moving, non tracking systems (such as windows, sliding glass doors, most skylights, light tubes)

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Passive daylighting

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Collecting sunlight using a mechanical device to increase the efficiency of light collection for given lighting purposes

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Active daylighting

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These are high, vertically placed windows

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Clerestory windows

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Vertical roof glass facing away from equator side of the building to capture diffused light.

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Sawtooth roof

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Light transmetting fenestration (products filling openings in a building envelope which alsp includes windows, dors etc.

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Skylights

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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

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Atrium

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Walls made of glass brick are translucent-to-transparent.

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Translucent walls

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Project beyond the shadow created by the eave and reflects sunlight upward to illuminate the ceiling.

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Light shelves

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Also called tubular daylighting device (TDD), which is placed into the roof and admits light to a focused area interior.

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Light tubes

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Track the sun by relying on a set of lens or sensors with a limited field of view, directed at the sun.

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Cloed loop sytems

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Track the sun without physically following the sun via sensors

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Open loop systems

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An electrical device containing an electric lamp that provides illumination.

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Light fixtures

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Parts of light fixtures

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Wiring
Junction Box
Lamp holder
Lamp
Reflector
Lens
Trim/Flange

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Electrical wiring, which provides power to the luminaire

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Wiring

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Provides a location to connect the wiring that comes from the power source with the internal wirng for the light fixtures

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Junction Box

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Receptacle that the lamp screws into

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Lamp Holder

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Often refers to as the light bulb

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Lamp

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Provides a reflective surface to direct the light from the lamp out into the space

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Reflector

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A transparent or translucent material used to direct or diffuse light.

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Lens

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A decorative element that is detachable

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Trim/flange

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Is mounted in a light cove, which is built above the ceiling at the intersection of the ceiling and the wall.

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Recessed Cove Lighting Fixtures

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Hang from the ceiling and are usually suspended from cables

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Indirect pendant

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Also hangs from ceiling, but it directs light uo and down

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Direct pendant

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Are recessed light with reflectors that direct the light foward the wall.

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Wall wash light fixtures

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Decorative fixture that is mounted to a wall

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Wall sconce

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Generic description for lights that are used to illuminate specific tasks.

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Task lighting

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Is the international standard filetype for providing luminaire light distribution information.

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IES

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Main format used in Europe

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EULUMDAT

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Format used primarily in Great Britain

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CIBSE

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Occasionally used in autodesk products such as 3ds max

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LTLI