Systematic Design Applied in Outdoor Spatiotemporal Lighting

Alexios Papacharalampopoulos,Thanos Balafoutis

doi:10.3390/designs5040074

Abstract

Outdoor lighting design consists of many different objectives, depending on the area that is illuminated. In addition, besides functional lighting, extra messages may be superimposed to a lighting configuration. This adds to the complexity of the lighting design. Furthermore, temporal variations in lighting may be used as an additional tool of expressivity. All the above require some basic training and also some familiarity with expression tools. In this work, a framework is given for seamless communication through lighting, including both spatial and temporal lighting patterns. To this end, two different kinds of time scales are considered, leading to case studies for both seasonal lighting and communication through rapid spatiotemporal differentiations in it. The framework is two-fold, allowing for both diagrammatic and quasi-algebraic elaboration, leading to interesting visual results and providing the first step towards optimization. Different cases of outdoor lighting are considered as case studies, namely façade lighting and glass cases. These are used to illustrate the applicability and the added value of the current framework, that is, the systematization of the lighting procedure taking into account artistic interventions, which can be considered an extension of utilizing semantics.

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Introduction

As a matter of fact, the spatial distribution illuminance is what renders the perception of an image possible [1]. The temporal variation of lighting is very useful from the human-centric design point of view, as it potentially provides benefits related to the mood, productivity, sustainability and even the perception [2]. It would require defining some timescale regarding the classification of temporal lighting patterns. As a matter of fact, this publication comments that the seasons are something that people have either to exploit or to avoid

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