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Night-time experience
Lighting creates a visual perception that turns the viewer into a participant, who is guided across the site.
I sense light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to light.Louis Kahn - Architect
Create an effective use of lighting to achieve a unified and cohesive design, which cares for security and safety and creates a sensible expression of the site, avoiding artificial effects.
Do
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Use uniform light colour for consistency.
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Create appropriate levels of lighting to achieve a balanced night-time experience.
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Choose light fixtures from a series or design familiy which respond to the character of each space.
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Establishing focal points and connecting them helps to guide the viewer across the site.
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Selectively illuminate pathways between the visual destinations and illuminate areas in the scene that contribute to create a continuous effective experience.
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Lighting also helps in orientation and identification of steps and exclusion zones, entrances, routes, and emergency exit routes.
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Support wayfinding with modest and efficient light fixtures with neutral shapes.
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Light pollution can be controlled by minimising the amount of upward lighting.
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Keep in mind safety and security needs.
Don't
Don’t space focal points too far apart, as there should not be complete darkness between them.
Avoid a theatrical appearance produced by artificial lighting effects.
Don’t shed light everywhere. Drop the light level of landscape features to enhance and tie together visual destinations.
Minimise all-night lighting.
Key to Night-time experience
- Establish focal points and connect them to guide the viewer across the site.
- Create appropriate levels of lighting with uniform colour.
- Employ minimal and efficient light fixtures with neutral shapes to aid in way-finding.
- Avoid a theatrical appearance produced by artificial lighting effects.
- Minimize light pollution.