Light Spaces and Forms in the City Light Planning Structure

Abstract

Artificial light is an effective and modern means of designing an urban environment, including architectural forms and spaces. Various functions and lighting concepts suggest the identification of the lighting nature of urban elements in the planning structure. Artistic and light parameters of forms and spaces can be measured using psychological and artistic compositional methods. Artificial light as part of the composition is used in optical and modern visual art, emphasizing its importance in landscape design, in revealing the semiotics of the city, in light landscapes formation. The analysis of artistic-psychological and comparatively estimated quantitative data of light forms and light spaces can be taken into account when creating a harmonious architectural and light environment. The theory of the city light-planning structure, lighting spaces and forms is given, the methods of their lighting on the embankments, in the historical part of the city are described, the mechanisms of their psychological impact and the measurement of subjective perception are revealed. The light-spatial parameters and lighting criteria are described. Variants and perspective proposals are put forward for creating light spaces based on the sum of the expressed light plastic of facades and the volumetric-spatial composition of buildings, landscape, light spaces as the intersection of communications and the harmonious interaction of light forms in the structure of the historic city centre. The reliability of the study can be provided by the earlier used “semantic differential” method.