Posted by in EXPERIMENTS The city, today, extends itself beyond the physical borders to become a perceptual, communicative, relational and social interactive landscape: the urban space is a mix of perceptions, gestures and events that urban lighting celebrates shaping the perception of the individual experience of the night and the relationship between inhabitants and the urban space. The design…Read more »
Posted by in ISSUES The efficiency and energy savings of public lighting are currently very hardly debated subjects and the general understanding supported by the lighting design practice agree that there is more to street lighting than percentage, figures, charts, calculations and statistics alone. The nighttime public lighting is a more complex argument: an increasing numbers of papers and…Read more »
Posted by in ISSUES Designing a garden is related to the composition and combination of spaces and shapes. It is this intelligent play of assembled volumes that can be perceived by the juxtaposition of shadows and light reflected by the objects of the garden in order to give the human beings the visual perception of the space. As an…Read more »
Posted by in ISSUES What role will the 21th century city lights play in our contemporary cities? What kind of lighting strategies can be adopted to better illuminate the nocturnal cities? Is it everything based on technological innovation or projects should be focused on social expectation and perception of the space in order to assure protection, safety, a better…Read more »
Posted by in ISSUES Increased awareness of the environmental effect of using fossil fuels as well as government targets to reduce carbon dioxide emissions have resulted in an increased interest in methods of harnessing solar energy. Traditional techniques are based around the photovoltaic effect and have been successfully developed to produce a commercially viable product. More interesting for a…Read more »
