1. DEPARTMENT of ARCHITECTURE I BRAC University
LIGHTING DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
DEPARTMENT of ARCHITECTURE I BRAC University

2. Lighting Design
“Design” is the science and art of making things useful to humankind.
Lighting design is the application of lighting—including daylight when it is specifically used as a source of lighting—to human spaces.
Like architecture, engineering and other design professions, lighting design relies on a combination of specific scientific principles, established standards and conventions, and a number of aesthetic, cultural and human factors applied in an artful manner.
Lighting Design

3. Design Considerations FORMAT OF PRESENTATION
Lighting Quantity
Task Illuminance
Lighting Quality
Light Distribution, including:
• Task and ambient lighting
• Day lighting integration
• Light pollution and light trespass
Space and Workplace Considerations, including:
• Flexibility
• Appearance of the space and luminaires
• Color appearance
• Luminance of room surfaces
• Direct glare
• Reflective glare
Lighting on People and Objects, including:
• Modeling faces and objects
• Surface characteristics
• Points of interest
Design Considerations
Implementation
Economic / Cost Consideration
Energy / Sustainability
FORMAT OF PRESENTATION

4. Design Consideration – 1. Lighting Quantity
Task Illuminance
Task Illuminance describes the amount of light falling on a surface. It has two components.
Amount of Light –
(based on usage or multiple usage of a space)
After detailed study and research CODES – provides values
&
2.If the surface is horizontal - horizontal illuminance
if the surface is vertical - vertical illuminance
Some tasks though are at an angle, such as reading a book in a hospital bed.
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5. Design Consideration – 2. Lighting Quality
Lighting profoundly affects many human reactions to the environment. These human reactions range from the obvious, such as the dramatic beauty of an illuminated landmark or the emotional response of a candlelight dinner, to subtle impacts on worker productivity in offices or sales in retail stores.
Light Distribution, including:
• Task and ambient lighting
• Day lighting integration
• Light pollution and light trespass
Space and Workplace Considerations, including:
• Flexibility
• Appearance of the space and luminaries
• Color appearance
• Luminance of room surfaces
• Direct glare
• Reflective glare
Lighting on People and Objects, including:
• Modeling faces and objects
• Surface characteristics
• Points of interest
• Sparkle
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6. Design Consideration – 2. Lighting Quality / Distribution
Task and ambient lighting
Task lighting systems independent from the space’s general lighting systems (serving specific task) are found in building types for instance, the display lighting in retail stores is a form of task lighting. Similarly, task lights are used in industrial manufacturing and assembly, health care, residential lighting, and many other interior lighting applications.
Options include
– indirect luminaries mounted atop cabinetry or workstations
– Suspended luminaries
– Recessed luminaries
Ambient Lighting
Task lights can’t light the balance of the room, and thus some other type of lighting system is needed to produce the ambient illumination in the room.
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Task – Ambient Lighting produce energy savings in three ways:
Locating the light source close to the task most efficiently produces the illumination levels needed for the task.
Task illumination levels don’t have to be maintained uniformly through out the space, so ambient levels can be lower.
Some occupants won’t use their task lights, and empty offices or workstations with absent occupants don’t have to be fully illuminated
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Day lighting Integration
Practice of using windows, skylights and other forms of fenestration to bring light into the interiors of buildings using various means.
Incorporating day lighting in the lighting design can be done by:
Proper control of the fenestration luminance
Daylight sensing and compensation control systems which allow adjustments to electric electrical lighting system
Glare controls should also be incorporated in the design
New techniques for “piping” light into interior spaces can allow sunlight and daylight to furnish a higher percentage of illumination requirements and more uniform distribution
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Light pollution
In outdoor lighting, electric light may illuminate adjacent properties which become offensive if unwanted is known as light trespass.
Electric lights emitting light upward o reflecting light upward cause a condition called light pollution which causes moisture and particles in the air to glow at night.
Several steps to minimize light pollution & light trespass
Use night lighting only when and where necessary
Use the minimum amount of light needed rather than the maximum
Use sources with cutoff optics that restrict light to the intend area of illumination
Use more sources, each of lower wattage, to improve uniformity in the intended illumination area and minimize trespass into adjacent areas.
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10. Design Consideration – 2. Lighting Quality / Space & Workplace
Space and Workplace Considerations, including:
• Flexibility
• Appearance of the space and luminaries
• Color appearance
• Luminance of room surfaces
• Direct glare
• Reflective glare
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• Flexibility
Advance lighting designs should be flexible enough to ensure that:
Lights operate where needed, and are off where not needed, as people move around within a space and use rooms in different ways.
The lighting space system can be rapidly reconfigured to match a changed floor plan or accommodate a different space use, and still operate at maximum energy efficiency.
The lighting system permits multiple uses and on-demand flexibility in multiple-use spaces such as conference rooms and modern A/V classrooms.
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Appearance & Space of luminaires
Luminaries efficiency and the ability to use efficacious sources have become increasingly important criteria for selecting luminaries.
Designer should find lighting systems that embody the project’s style or aesthetic but to do so using high-efficacy sources and efficient principles.
For instance, choose luminaries that “hide” light source but avoid such as crystal chandeliers that require lamps with bare incandescent filaments.
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13. Design Consideration – 2. Lighting Quality/ Space & Workplace
The appearance of color
both in terms of
color rendition (CRI-Colour Rendering Index)
Correlated colour Temperature (CCT)
are important in the overall feeling of the space, and in some instances can have a dramatic effect on visual tasks.
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Color Rendering Index (CRI) describes how a light source makes the color of an object appear to human eyes and how well subtle variations in color shades are revealed. The CRI is a scale from 0 to 100 percent indicating how accurate a "given" light source is at rendering color when compared to a "reference" light source. The higher the CRI, the better the color rendering ability.  Halogen is considered the “reference” light source and has a CRI of 100.
CRI of 100 in an LED source has not yet been developed.  CRI in the 90’s is possible but very expensive.
Fluorescent lamp sources are considered very poor in CRI running in the low 70’s. A CRI index >80 is considered very good. 
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Correlated Color Temperature
For good visual comfort, light needs to have the right color and quality.
Light can feel cool or warm. This is quantified by the "color temperature" and measured in degrees Kelvin. The higher the color temperature, the bluer the light is.  This may seem counter-intuitive, as we think of blue as a "cooler" color than red, but it comes from the physics of black body radiation.  People generally prefer bright light to be bluer, like daylight, while they prefer dim light to be yellow, like candlelight.  
The color temperatures of daylight and various common light sources are below.
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16. Design Consideration – 2. Lighting Quality / Space & Workplace
Luminance of room surfaces –
Periodic trends in interior design introduce dark paints and finishes. These trends contribute to difficulty in producing energy-effective design by increasing lighting requirements to raise surface luminance into the comfortable range.
Lighting designer should:
Encourage the use of high diffuse reflectivity (light colored) surfaces and minimize the use of dark surfaces.
Use computer modeling to ensure that the average room surface luminance is at least 10% of the task background.
With indirect lighting systems, use computer calculations to check for uniformity and try to maintain 10:1 luminance ratio or better.
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Direct Glare
. Caused by a view of the light source, often with high contrast to the surroundings.
Glare is associated not just with lamps, but also with daylight, especially when one is exposed to low angle, direct sunlight.
Be concerned
– more about the glare caused by lamps, lenses and other overly bright sources of manmade lights
– less about glare of sunlight and small point sources
– most concerned about sources of glares in relation to the stationary tasks when building occupants cannot easily relocate themselves or their tasks
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Reflective Glare
Have long been associated with gloss-coated paper, pencil paperwork and computer CRT (cathode ray tube) screen.
Indirect lighting, by creating a diffuse and uniform illumination has been advocated as solution.
Can create specular reflections that can cause glare reducing comfort or disabling the worker’s vision in particular areas.
Reflective glare - when system has been optimized to reduce glare – then consider:
modifying the task to eliminate remaining glare problem such
as use of flat screen CRT or active matrix.
Use of ink rather than pencil
Use of matte-coated or uncoated paper rather than gloss coating paper.
Changing finishes of polished floors or shiny conference room tables.
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Lighting on People and Objects, including:
• Modeling faces and objects
• Surface characteristics
• Points of interest
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Modeling faces and objects
In human vision, shadows and highlights enhance the perception of three dimensions. Both are the products of directional light sources. The sun and the moon produce well-defined shadows, and are considered dramatic and attractive light sources.
Diffuse light, like the light from a cloudy sky, produces an even light that is relatively shadow-free. Once considered desirable, it is now realized that shadow-free light can fail to render changes in surfaces making a space or task less visible. To model a surface for better recognition of its shape and features, in general some percentage of directional light is considered important.
Consider using a blend of direct and indirect lighting in most designs to provide a combination of comfort and modeling.
To achieve a minimum modeling, a directional light for an object or area of interest should be at least % of the total illumination.
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21. Design Consideration – 2. Lighting Quality
Surface Characteristics
Lighting techniques that reveal architectural nuance like texture enhance visual perception have become more commonly requested by building owners and architects
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Point of Interest
In retail and museum lighting, designers use highlights of up to 10 times the ambient light level to draw attention to key display.
Recognize that it’s wasteful to create lighting than is needed.
Carefully select highlights, and use a minimum effective highlight level.
Creating highlights in contrast to lower ambient illumination levels
Creating highlights with efficient sources as close to the object or surface as possible.
Small points of light from fiber optic sources or LEDs may offer efficient ways to create highlights or attract attention where specifically desired.
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23. Implementation Implementation Economic / Cost Consideration
Energy / Sustainability
Design Consideration – 3. Implementation

24. Design Consideration – 3.Implementation
Energy Efficiency
Energy-efficient lighting design focuses on ways to improve both the quality and efficiency of lighting.
Match the amount and quality of light to the performed function.
Install task lights where needed and reduce ambient light elsewhere.
Use only energy-efficient lighting components, controls and systems. These include Fluorescent and LED lighting options.
Maximize the use of daylighting. Daylighting is the use of windows and skylights to bring natural light into your home.
Use of Daylight
Energy Efficiency
Incorporate proper lighting controls
Infrared sensors
†Motion sensors
†Automatic timers
†Dimmers
…Replacement with energy efficient lamps
CFLs and LEDs
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