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What are the considerations for landscape lighting projects? Currently, the industry still faces these issues!

Aug 25,2020

What are the considerations for landscape lighting projects? Currently, the industry still faces these issues!

Keywords: Landscape Lighting

Many friends may still be unfamiliar with the term "landscape lighting". In fact, everyone must have seen it in their daily lives, such as the small streetlights along the paths in parks at night, which are part of landscape lighting. When carrying out landscape lighting projects, it is important to highlight the artistic lines of the city, showcase the points and surfaces of the city, clarify the city's outline, and beautify the urban structure. What problems still exist in this industry? The author has detailed these in the article, let's take a look!

Precautions for Landscape Lighting Projects:

During the process of urban landscape lighting projects, oversights often occur due to neglecting certain details. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to the following matters when carrying out landscape lighting projects:

1. Highlight the artistic lines of the city

Regularly arranged streetlights adorn the roads into several light bands interwoven in the city, clearly distinguishing between primary and secondary paths, making the road structure clear and easy to identify.

2. Showcase the points and surfaces of the city

The buildings in the central area of the city are relatively concentrated, with a high density and brightness of lights. Iconic buildings are often located in the central area. Neon advertisements, lightbox signs, and both internal and external lighting of buildings create bright areas embedded in the road network, making the structure of the city's central area clear at a glance.

3. Clarify the city's outline

The outline of the city in daylight is determined by the shapes, colors, and shadows of its edge buildings. The better organized the city is, the more closely it integrates with the surrounding environment, making the city outline harder to distinguish. However, at night, landscape lighting clearly outlines the city, distinctly differentiating it from surrounding areas. When viewing the city from a height at night, the outline is complete and clear, intuitively reflecting the city's shape and scale.

4. Beautify the urban structure

The recognition of urban structure, apart from topographical features, mainly relies on identifying different areas formed by urban roads and building clusters. The city in daylight reflects all the information of its components, making the urban structure hidden and difficult to discern.

Problems in the Landscape Lighting Industry:

Although the landscape lighting industry is currently developing very rapidly, there are still many problems that need to be addressed:

1. Designing flashy but impractical landscape lighting projects that are not coordinated with the local geographical environment and overall style.

2. Many advertising companies have transitioned to lighting projects but only know how to construct without understanding design or lighting fixtures, focusing on profit while neglecting construction quality.

3. Planning for excessive urban lighting areas and quantities, constructing oversized artificial hills, waterfalls, and other landscape lighting projects, wasting a large amount of resources and energy, exceeding the local economic and social development level and financial capacity.

4. Many years of selling and operating lighting fixtures have transitioned to lighting projects, but they only promote their own fixtures, neglecting the quality of the lighting projects, and excessively installing lights, which often damages the original structure of buildings during the day.

5. Every holiday, the landscape lighting is decorated, but after the holiday, it returns to plainness, failing to make landscape lighting a part of daily life.

6. A love for beautiful lights leads to blindly illuminating all buildings on the street, resulting in excessive brightness and damaging the original visual effects of the landscape, losing the hazy beauty of the night.

7. A complete lighting project should reflect the changes of the four seasons, not just appear during a few important holidays.

The above is what I have introduced regarding the precautions for landscape lighting projects and the current problems in the industry. If you still do not understand it well, feel free to consult us!