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Unit 4 Methods of Lightingambient, Task and Accent Lighting

The document discusses different types of lighting, including ambient or general lighting, task lighting, and accent lighting. General lighting provides overall illumination to an area and can be achieved through ceiling fixtures, wall mounts, and floor or table lamps. Task lighting helps with specific activities and should prevent eyestrain. Accent lighting is used to draw attention to features through more concentrated light. Proper lighting design considers factors like glare, light levels, and lighting types for different spaces and tasks.

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Unit 4 Methods of Lightingambient, Task and Accent Lighting

The document discusses different types of lighting, including ambient or general lighting, task lighting, and accent lighting. General lighting provides overall illumination to an area and can be achieved through ceiling fixtures, wall mounts, and floor or table lamps. Task lighting helps with specific activities and should prevent eyestrain. Accent lighting is used to draw attention to features through more concentrated light. Proper lighting design considers factors like glare, light levels, and lighting types for different spaces and tasks.

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Methods of lighting: Ambient

Learning outcome: Able to analyze the situation based lighting schemes

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Three Types of Lighting

 General lighting
(ambient lighting)

 Task lighting

 Accent Lighting

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General lighting

 General lighting provides an area with overall illumination. Also known as ambient lighting, general
lighting should provide a comfortable level of brightness, enabling you to perform tasks and move
about safely.

 General lighting for indoors can be accomplished with a chandeliers, ceiling or wall-mounted fixtures,
recessed or track lights, and with floor and table lamps. General lighting fixtures outside your home can
include spotlights, hanging fixtures, post lanterns, wall lighting, and recessed fixtures used in overhanging
structures.

Task lighting

 Task lighting helps you perform specific tasks and activities such as reading, writing, sewing, cooking,
homework, or balancing your checkbook. Task lighting is usually achieved with recessed and track lighting,
pendant lighting, portable lamps, or desk lamps.

 Task lighting should be free of distracting glare and shadows and should be bright enough to prevent
eyestrain. It’s useful to have task lighting on controls that are separate from the general lighting.

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Accent Lighting

 Accent lighting is the use of a concentrated light on an area or subject to create a


visual point of interest. Accent lighting is often used to spotlight architectural
features, paintings, plants, sculptures or collectables.

 Accent lighting adds an extra dimension to a room, and proper use of accent
lighting can help make a room look larger.

 Creating effective accent lighting typically requires at least three times as much
light on the focal point as the general lighting around it. Accent lighting is usually is
created by using track, recessed, or wall-mounted fixtures.

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General lighting
 General lighting provides an area with overall illumination. Also known
as ambient lighting, general lighting should provide a comfortable level
of brightness, enabling you to perform tasks and move about safely.

 General lighting for indoors can be


accomplished with a chandeliers, ceiling
or wall-mounted fixtures, recessed or
track lights, and with floor and table
lamps.

 General lighting fixtures outside your


home can include spotlights, hanging
fixtures, post lanterns, wall lighting, and
recessed fixtures used in overhanging
structures.
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Lighting or illumination is the deliberate application of light to achieve
some aesthetic or practical effect.

Lighting includes use of both artificial light sources such as lamps and
natural illumination of interiors from daylight.

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Lighting or illumination is the deliberate
application of light to achieve
some aesthetic or practical effect.

• Lighting includes use of both artificial light


sources such as lamps and natural
illumination of interiors from daylight.
Daylighting(through windows, skylights, etc.)
is often used as the main source of light
during daytime in buildings given its high
quality and low cost.

• Artificial lighting represents a major


component of energy consumption,
accounting for a significant part of all energy
consumed worldwide.
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• Artificial lighting is most commonly
provided today by electric lights, but gas
lighting, candles or oil lamps were used in
the past, and still are used in certain
situations.

• Proper lighting can enhance task


performance or aesthetics, while there
can be energy wastage and adverse health
effects of poorly designed lighting.

• Indoor lighting is a form of fixture or


furnishing and a key part of interior
design.

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•Glare is difficulty seeing in the
presence of bright light such as direct
or reflected sunlight or artificial light
such as car headlamps at night.

•Because of this, some cars include


mirrors with automatic anti-glare
functions.

•• Glare is caused by a significant ratio


of luminance between the task (that
which is being looked at) and the glare
•source.

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• Factors such as the angle between the
task and the glare source and eye
adaptation have significant impacts on the
experience of glare.

• Glare can be generally divided into two


types, discomfort glare and disability glare.

• Discomfort glare results in an instinctive


desire to look away from a bright light
source or difficulty in seeing a task.

• Disability glare renders the task


impossible to view, such as when driving
westward at sunset.

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•Disability glare is often caused by the
•inter-reflection of light within the
eyeball, reducing the contrast between
task and glare source to the point where
the task cannot be distinguished.

•When glare is so intense that vision is


completely impaired, it is sometimes
called dazzle.

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Ambient Lighting
•The goal of ambient lighting is to provide even,
overall light to a room. This is most often
accomplished with recessed lighting or a
beautiful chandelier. Wall-mounted lighting like a
sconce also provides ambient lighting.

•Always use dimmers with ambient lighting! This


way we can adjust the lighting level based on the
time of day or mood you'd like to create.

•Multiple circuits in a room so you can dim some


lights while keeping others brighter.

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Ambient areas in a house are:
Lounge
Dining Rooms
Bedrooms
Passages

In these areas one would make use of down


lights (halogen or LED’S) ceiling lights, or
chandeliers, or a mixture of all of the above

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MCQ’s :

1. As per layers, lighting is divided in how many types?


a) 1
b) 3
c) 2
d) 4

1. As per source, lighting is divided in how many types?


a) 1
b) 3
c) 2
d) 4

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