Overall Lighting Implementations on the Urban Scale (Postion v 1.1)

Generally, Lighting Design is focused on the human scale primarily focusing on building aspects. The building, meaning the architecture, certainly has an important role in the scheme of a community’s uniqueness and unity; however being that it is a part of a whole it has to address the community on a larger scale. The city development in terms of lighting can help areas to address difficulties both physically and psychologically within the community.

Lighting like many aspects of design is important and can be used for other purposes than just being able to view a space; may be how the space is viewed is even more important. The process for this project would begin with research to inform the project overall about the community characteristics, where the community sees itself in the future, and what the community’s next step is. Within the process, comparisons of lighting on both a human scale and an urban scale would be evaluated to find the outcomes. Comparisons of each condition would come from poorly-lit and well-lit areas over a time span which shows the change of community involvement and perspectives. This would lead into how lighting on both scales affects certain aspects and features of a community; including crime rate, job opportunities, and child development. This also allows the project to be informed of the characteristics of the community and hopefully helps the community to develop in a way it sees fit. Comparisons will be of precedent studies of how architects not only design for the individual person (one building), but the overall urban fabric for the community. After researching the overall characteristics of lighting and their effects on the human mind, the project would focus on the implementation of lighting design on the scale in which research sees fit. Therefore, the project may be small or large scale depending on what the community needs to change, verify, and/or highlight.