Architectural lighting design: A research review over 50 years

Mansfield, Kevin

doi:10.1177/1477153517736803

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“…It could offer input to increase interest in the psychological effects in identifying the way in which lighting can benefit a desirable outcome (Boyce 2014). Current research on the illumination hierarchy that expresses visual significance of the content of spaces appears to be relevant for a semiotic perspective (Mansfield 2018). The importance of the interpretative-historical research became obvious in studies that examined cultural phenomena with changes of meaning through time or relationships between different fields such as art, retail, and lighting (Neumann 2002;Salomon 2014).…”

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The Language of Lighting: Applying Semiotics in the Evaluation of Lighting Design

Schielke

2019

LEUKOS

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Architectural lighting provides optimum visibility for tasks but illuminations convey meanings as well. Though many studies analyze technical dimensions of lighting, research on the meaning is rare. Therefore, this article discusses semiotics as a methodology for lighting design within the design process and critically reflects the appearance of light and architecture. The semiotic discourse starts with terminology and presents models of architectural signs. The history of architectural semiotics serves as a background for the transfer to lighting and leads to an understanding of recent debates. The relevance of semiotics for lighting design is shown in three aspects: Firstly, the influence on the lighting design process; secondly, how physical characteristics of light intensity, distribution, and spectrum are interpreted as signs; and, thirdly, the evaluation of different lighting design tasks like daylight, lamp and luminaire design, interior and exterior lighting, as well as media façades. A critique of architectural and lighting semiotics reveals the methodological limitations of the linguistic concept. It can be concluded that semiotics provides a useful instrument to identify the meaning, which helps to improve the quality of lighting design. The semiotic matrix offers a differentiated view of relationships based on the aspects of sign, object, and interpretant with relation to light characteristics, illuminated buildings, and architectural lighting in general. ARTICLE HISTORY

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The Language of Lighting: Applying Semiotics in the Evaluation of Lighting Design

Schielke

2019

LEUKOS

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“…To celebrate its 50th birthday, LRT released a special issue to introduce the achievements of multiple subareas of lighting research, 5 including non-visual effects of light, 6 light measurement instrumentation, 7 architectural lighting design, 8 CIE colour appearance models, 9 daylighting in buildings, 10 light controls, 11 road lighting, 12 vision 13 and visual discomfort. 14 In 1998, Marsden listed papers published in LRT which had won the Leon Gaster awards and Walsh-Weston awards and selected the top 20 papers published during the first 30 years since LRT's inception 15 and Cannon-Brookes et al .…”

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Half a century of Lighting Research & Technology: A bibliometric review

Chen

Zhai

et al. 2019

Lighting Research & Technology

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Lighting Research & Technology (LRT) is an influential journal in the field of light and lighting dating back to 1969. To celebrate its 50th birthday, the current study explored its bibliometric characteristics and mapped the bibliographic information graphically through VOSviewer software. This analysis found that the number of papers has steadily increased during recent years. The most productive and cited country was the United Kingdom. The most productive and cited institution was Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The most prolific author was Steve Fotios and the most cited author was Mark Rea. The journal most cited together with LRT was Leukos. LRT has become more and more international and interdisciplinary over the last five decades. Suggestions for the development of LRT are provided. Develpoments over the last 50 years have turned LRT into one of leading journals in the light and lighting field, one which has a bright future.

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“…Further searches were carried out to look for recent publications, in particular how lighting might influence general wayfinding, crowd behaviour and the design of architectural spaces. 29 These searches used similar keywords and the search terms linked to the main characteristics of lighting (e.g. intensity, colour, movement) that were emerging during the course of the review.…”

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Identifying new concepts for innovative lighting-based interventions to influence movement and behaviours in train stations

Hughes

Ryan

Hallewell

et al. 2020

Lighting Research & Technology

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The disorderly and disrupted movement of passengers within train stations are key concerns in rail transport, especially where there are increasing numbers of passengers, coupled with often out-dated, adapted station spaces. With careful planning and design, different characteristics of lighting can be employed to address problems relating to the movement and behaviour of passengers in railway environments. This study aims to offer an approach to identify new concepts for lighting-based interventions to influence passenger movement behaviours within train stations. Behaviourally orientated lighting literature was reviewed, providing the knowledge base to inform a series of engagement activities with transport stakeholders and lighting technologists, to understand problematic behaviours and how these might be resolved through targeted lighting design. In combining findings from the literature with insights from rail and transport-related industry stakeholders and lighting specialists, a number of potential opportunities for novel applications of lighting have been identified. Six scenarios are developed that illustrate these opportunities for potential lighting-based interventions to influence train passenger movement and behaviour. These scenarios can be used to inform the direction of further research and consideration of how different lighting characteristics can affect rail passenger behaviours.

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Architectural lighting design: A research review over 50 years

Cited by 30 publications

References 50 publications

The Language of Lighting: Applying Semiotics in the Evaluation of Lighting Design

The Language of Lighting: Applying Semiotics in the Evaluation of Lighting Design

Half a century of Lighting Research & Technology: A bibliometric review

Identifying new concepts for innovative lighting-based interventions to influence movement and behaviours in train stations

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