With the development of urban economy, landscape lighting as a kind of both lighting and aesthetic role of outdoor lighting projects are becoming more and more popular, colorful lights make the night is no longer monotonous and lonely. However, due to the lack of relevant standards, many landscape lighting only to “bright” as a criterion, unnatural lighting not only ugly environment, and even aggravate light pollution and other problems. How to make a natural and beautiful landscape design?
Many cities have a strong taste of artifice in their landscape lighting, with abrupt brightness and color, glare, and paced performances that are unnatural.So, landscape lighting as a kind of artificial lighting, is not a product of nature, or even inherently anti-natural or supernatural tendencies, so why do we still need natural expression? How about the city landscape lighting is natural?
We come from nature, we have long been used to nature for millions of years, nature is always beautiful (sure aesthetics that nature is all beautiful). Artifice means violating the rules of nature, artificially and forcibly transforming and distorting nature. This transformation and distortion, when done carelessly, often takes on an ugly form.
From the characteristics of nature, in the field of landscape lighting, glare is not natural, in addition to the sun, there is almost no glare source in nature. Colored light is also not natural, because there is basically no isolated existence of colored light in nature, only colored objects, and almost no colored luminous objects, even if there are creatures that can emit colored light like jellyfish, it is difficult to use for lighting. The linked media façade is not natural, because there is no perfectly synchronized behavior in nature, but more irregularity (non-orderliness) bred in the underlying regularity, reflecting a kind of “randomness” or “randomness”. For example, the leaves of trees in the northern hemisphere are dense in the south and sparse in the north, and the branches are long in the south and short in the north, but not all the branches of every tree look exactly the same.
So, how to achieve natural expression in landscape lighting?
01 avoid pretentiousness.
To focus on a good carrier for landscape lighting construction, the general carrier can be spared not to do. Good carrier is like a young and beautiful woman, with a simple white light a cast light, powder without, also have a stunning feeling. And general or even poorer carrier to do landscape lighting, like an old woman in heavy makeup, it is disgusting, of course, will not be natural.
02 create randomness or arbitrariness.
The less signs of carving, the less similarity, the more natural it will feel. Natural interior translucency is the best way to do this because natural interior translucency relies on living light inside naturally lit windows, which has a random distribution and looks the most natural. A general landscape lighting vehicle can also display stunning beauty when it is a member of a natural interior perspective.
03 be careful with colored light.
Improper use of colored light may cause a gaudy feeling, close to heavy makeup. Relatively speaking, white light is the most natural, urban night scenes should be dominated by white light.
04 restrict media-based lighting.
For example, the construction of linked media façade, because media-based lighting allows us to focus on the light itself, rather than the natural carrier.
05 restrain the violent dynamic changes.
A gentle breeze is a pleasure, violent sway becomes a typhoon, a suffering. Lingering light can give life to the building, while violent lighting changes not only make the scenery unnatural, but also may endanger eye health.
06 the use of simulated natural lighting.
such as moonlight lighting, at this time, the light is not sharp, whether the angle of exposure or light uniformity, softness, are close to the natural moonlight, with a sense of natural beauty.
Landscape lighting should also pursue a bland natural aesthetics, not deliberate, not flattering, not gaudy, not artifice, bland contains the truth and confidence, natural more vivid, more durable, more moving. But also should not pursue complete homogeneity, not forcibly require buildings and structures in the consistency of lighting methods, but should reflect the greatest tolerance, showing the city’s own character and taste.
In addition, less excessive planning, so that the night scene is naturally generated, less excessive construction, try to show the charm of natural inner life, less excessive light, so that the city’s night is cleaner.
WanJin lighting is committed to building natural landscapes that better reflect the original beauty of cities for people around the world.
Post time: Sep-24-2022
