How should outdoor landscape lighting be designed?

 

With changes in urban living patterns, people are spending more and more time at night, especially in commercial spaces where the hours of night consumption are extended, making night landscape lighting particularly important. Rich urban night lighting helps to shape the highlights of the city scene, and people’s pursuit of living comfort and technological advances have led the city’s landscape lighting in the direction of artistry and wisdom.

 

Outdoor landscape lighting should follow the following points:

 

01,strengthen public consultation, top-level design and adhere to the unity of the people.


Landscape lighting needs to follow the people-oriented design concept, not blindly pursue aesthetics and ignore the impact on people’s lives, especially residential areas and their surrounding landscape lighting should be centered on human comfort to think and design, the use of soft low colour temperature lamps and lanterns to avoid harsh light directly into the eyes. In the functional lighting planning, landscape lighting planning pay more attention to the public experience.

 

02, the emphasis on green lighting, to promote the green and low-carbon sustainable development of urban lighting.

Landscape lighting in taking into account the image of urban space night scene is also a major energy consumer, should be green and efficient as the core, while using the advantages of new energy solar energy and the use of energy-saving low-carbon LED lighting products, through intelligent lighting control system with a variety of "pre-set" control methods for different scenes of lighting to accurately set and Management, different times of the day, different functions set different lighting brightness, so that the control system for lighting intelligent control to achieve energy savings, effective control of urban lighting energy consumption, low-carbon energy saving.

 

03, the implementation of dark night protection, leading the ecological restoration of the night and the dark night economy.

Contribute to the ecological restoration of the night, can not let the landscape lighting to break the laws of nature. For observatories with specific requirements should be to observe the night environment and dark environment as the theme, outdoor landscape lighting design should be selected with "dark sky protection" design lamps, according to the location of the illuminated scenery and the environment to determine the location of lamps, irradiation angle, quantity and layout, to avoid interference light and glare, reduce light pollution, but also The light of the starry sky at night.

 

Selection of light fixtures:

 

01, garden lighting:

lighting design can enhance the visual effect of the garden and the night atmosphere, and show the garden architecture, sculpture, flowers, trees, rocks and other scenic features.Spotlights are easy to adjust the relationship with the position of the irradiated object, choose the angle of light distribution, from the bottom to the top of the light is a common means of garden lighting, but need to take into account the plant, architectural features, location and environment to choose the best location and angle of spotlight installation, lamps need to be hidden as far as possible, to create the effect of seeing light without lights. Garden lights help to create a soft light mass around the landscape, and the installation of beautiful and exquisite garden lights in the flower lawns does not affect the overall aesthetic effect during the day, and can also create an ambient effect of flowers at night.

 

02, pedestrian street lighting:

pavement lighting is the most important to ensure the safety of people traveling, should avoid the use of lamps with projection angle directly into the human eye. High-pole landscape lighting should be used in areas with high pedestrian traffic to ensure that the horizontal illumination of the ground in the activity area is 15-25lx, and garden paths can be used to provide lighting with garden lights or lawn lights, the light source should be selected with a warm colour temperature shade effect to avoid glare.

 

03, water lighting:

water features are often a garden or scenic landmark landscape, water lighting fixtures require a high level of waterproofing, rustproof grade, etc.. Water features need to be set up around functional lighting, to facilitate people to see the edge of the waterfront platform, to prevent people from accidentally falling into the water, but also according to the shape of the water feature and the reflection of the water surface to choose low colour temperature light soft lamps and lanterns, to avoid the water surface to produce strong reflections directly to the human eye.

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Post time: Oct-31-2022