How to Do a Good Job in Landscape Lighting Design

How to do a good job in landscape lighting design

With the gradual improvement of people’s material living standards in recent years, the requirements for the night image of the city have also gradually increased, and the landscape lighting design has been increasingly integrated into the urban night scene lighting. So how to do landscape lighting design?

 

First of all, the use of lighting art can not only give a city vitality, but also create a unique urban atmosphere. Therefore, landscape lighting design is to enhance the artistic appeal of city squares, gardens, scenic spots, roads, etc. Clever use of lighting to highlight these landscape effects makes the lighting functional and practical, so that the urban landscape lighting does not stop at decorative lighting, but achieves artistic dramatic aesthetic lighting. It is necessary to make better use of the combination of light and shadow, so that important elements such as topography, green plants, and water features (such as fountains, streams, and lakes) are pleasant and delicious at night. Moreover, according to the different seasons, provide multi-angle forward-looking different landscape lighting design solutions.

Correctly choose the lighting method and lighting fixtures

Lighting method

There are many ways of landscape lighting, the most common flood lighting, moon lighting, upper lighting, lower lighting, contour lighting and so on. The choice of lighting should be thoughtful from the perspective of artistic lighting, bringing out the details and even the subtleties of the illuminated object.

Flood Lighting:

A lighting method that directly illuminates the facade of the illuminated object with floodlights and reshapes the image of the object at night. It is also the most commonly used lighting method in urban landscape lighting.

Moonlight Illumination:

Sometimes called natural lighting. It is mostly used for green plants, and most of them are projected downwards or upwards, and the shadows and lights are reasonably matched to create a romantic and peaceful atmosphere.

Uplighting:

Use lighting fixtures to shine the light upward on the illuminated object. Compared with floodlights, the lighting of uplighting lamps is much softer, and is mostly used for wall lighting of statues and buildings. The spotlight can make the single object illuminated to produce visual continuity, so that the lighting landscape can be integrated.

Downlighting:

The light area of ​​downlighting is umbrella-shaped. It is generally used in the courtyard of the clubhouse, and the light in the downlight lighting area gives people a comfortable feeling.

Contour Lighting:

The lighting light highlights the outline of the illuminated object, and performs contrast lighting or highlights the shape of the illuminated object to highlight the metaphorical effect of the lighting.

Lighting Fixtures

The choice of lighting fixtures is more appropriate. To reduce the use of ordinary floodlights, try to choose lighting fixtures with better angles and controllability. And the concealment of the lamps is better, and micro and embedded lighting lamps can also be used according to different environmental factors to avoid interference with the lighting objects. Mainly use green lighting fixtures and lighting equipment.

In general, a good landscape lighting design not only needs lighting art and lighting technology, but also needs to express the artistic conception of lighting in a reasonable and scientific way, to create a gorgeous and practical night scene, so as to achieve people’s physical and mental pleasure.

Frequently used landscape lighting fixtures

In landscape lighting, the first is to use lighting products that meet green lighting conditions, and the second is to consider whether the installed lighting fixtures are safe, fire-proof, anti-theft and other issues.

Lighting fixtures often used in landscape lighting

1. Highmast Lights – Landscape Lighting

The height above 18 meters is generally called high pole lighting. High pole lighting is mainly used for square lighting, such as railway stations, large overpasses, etc. According to the form of the rod body, it can be divided into lifting type, fixed type and dumping type. Generally, a lift-type high-pole light is used. The shape of the high pole lamp is divided into mushroom type, lotus type, ball type and so on. Highmast lights have a great range of lighting.

2. Garden lights – landscape lighting

Garden lights can make landscape lighting highlight its artistic effect and beauty while playing a lighting function. There are many styles of garden lights, such as classical, simple and so on. There are also many categories of available lighting sources, such as energy-saving lamps, low pressure sodium lamps, LED lamps, metal halide lamps, and more.

3. Lawn lamp – landscape lighting

Lawn lights are very useful. Mainly used in the lighting of some related areas in parks, residential areas, squares and schools. It can create a harmonious and warm atmosphere under the night scene. Lawn lights generally use brightness and light-dark contrast to adjust the distance of the light source.

4. Buried lights – landscape lighting

Buried lights are mostly used for squares, blocks and other lighting. There are many types, and the lighting angles are also different. There are upper lighting, two sides lighting, and surrounding lighting, which can be applied to different environments. There are also buried underwater, and the installation position of the buried lamp is mainly determined by the lighting object.

5. Wall lamp – landscape lighting

Wall lamps are mainly installed on steps and functional lighting such as corridors, corridors, and activity areas. Generally, LED lights are used.