Anosha Khan

Summary of week 1
Anosha Khan

Summary of week 1
Anosha Khan
 Task 1 – Read on Architectural Lighting

The basic aim of lighting within the built environment is:

• to enable occupants to see clearly and without discomfort. 
• to create mood
• visual interest
• enhance the experience of a space or place whilst still meeting the technical
and safety requirements.

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 Categories of Architectural
Light Fixtures

• Outdoor/ Indoor
• Mounting
• Shape
• Function
• Product Designs
• Lamp Types
• Architectural perspective

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 Lamp Types

LED Halogen CFL Metal Halide

10-110 lm/W 16-23 lm/W 52-100 lm/W 50-115 lm/W

Incandescent Light Bulb Sulphur Lamp High pressure sodium Low pressure sodium
4-17 lm/W 80-110 lm/W 55-140 lm/W 100-200 lm/W

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 Area
Outdoor light bulbs are more variable. Typically, they are interchangeable for indoor and
outdoor use. In contrast, indoor lights are not designed to withstand outdoor temperature
changes

Outdoor lighting Indoor Lighting

Protection needed against: • No threat due to weather conditions, wind,
• Water water or dust.
• Dust

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 Ingress Progression
(IP Rating)
Classifies and rates the degree of protection provided by
mechanical casings and electrical enclosures against
• Dust
• Water

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 Mounting

Recessed Lights Surface Lights Suspended Lights

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 Shape The common architectural lights are usually circular and
square in shape.

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 Richard Kelly
(1910–1977)

• Focal Glow.
• Ambient Luminescence.
• Play of Brilliants.
• No other practitioner has ever articulated
lighting design concepts in such a way.

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 Based On Function

Ambient Decorative Focused

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 Based on Product Designs

Downlights Uplights Wall lights

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 Floor lighting Table lighting

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 Vintage Lighting
Characteristics:
• metal shades in pastel-colored finishes
• glass shades in tinted
• milky or prismatic options
• simple silhouettes
• vintage style bulbs.

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Contemporary Lights
• Smooth profile
• Minimal design with no ornamentation or
noisy textures
• Features grayscale tones

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 Industrial lighting
• manufacturing environments such as
factories, chemical plants, or refineries.
• particularly helpful for spotting or
identifying hazards and other dangerous
conditions.
• more energy efficient for manufacturing
facilities which tend to be rather large in
size
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 Moorish Lighting
• Influenced by Arab culture & the
Mediterranean region; Spain, France and
Portugal
• geometric patterns
• distinctive warm & unique style

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 Transitional Lighting
• warm, inviting atmosphere
• tend to be warmer than the average
modern light, but are much less formal
than traditional lights

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 Bohemian Lighting
• Whimsical organic lighting style that
emphasizes an authentic connection with
Mother Nature.

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 Human Eye
• Rods - vision at low light levels.
• Cones - active at higher light levels and
capable of color vision.

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Technical Jargons
Illuminance Luminance
• measured as the amount • how bright we perceive
of light striking a surface. the light that is emitted
or reflected off of the
• SI unit- Lux
surface.

Luminous Flux Luminous Intesity

• measure of the perceived
power of light.
• SI unit- Lumen
• the quantity of visible
light that is emitted in
unit time per unit solid
angle.

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Reflectance factors Luminous Efficacy
• describes how much of • Ratio of the emitted flux
the striking light is and the absorbed
reflected by the surface. electrical power.

CRI Visual Comfort

• Color Rendering Index • Level of light in a room

• measurement of how • The balance of contrasts

colors look under a light
• the color ‘temperature’
source when compared
with sunlight • And the absence or
presence of glare.

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Hue Tones

Shades

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 Color Temperature

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Beam Angle Voltage
• Potential Difference
across ends of
conductor.

• SI unit- Volts

Current Power
• Flow of electricity/ • the rate, per unit time, at
electrons. which electrical energy is
transferred by an electric
• SI unit- Ampere
circuit.

• SI unit- Watt

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 Light Distribution Curve
What is a Light Distribution Curve?
• visual representation of the light diffused by a luminaire

Interpreting a light distribution curve

• solid line indicates the frontal view

• the dotted line the side view

• shape of both lines is usually about the same for most

lamps

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 CIBSE
• Chartered Institution of Building
Services Engineers
• Consulted by government on matters
relating to construction, engineering and
sustainability.

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 ASHRAE
• American Society of Heating,
Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning
Engineers
• funds research projects
• develops and publishes technical standards
to improve building services engineering,
energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and
sustainable development.

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 LEED
• Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design
• Green building certification program used
worldwide.

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Thank You