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Is Architectural Lighting about Technology or Aesthetics?
KIRJOIT TANUT Roope Siiroinen, 12.8.2019
Is Architectural Lighting about Technology or Aesthetics?

The field of architectural lighting has undergone significant changes in the past few years. Lighting design is no longer based on choosing equipment and styles of lighting fixtures nor mathematical calculations. Instead of lighting, one might talk about night-time spatial entity.

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Architectural Lighting – What Defines High-Quality Lighting?
KIRJOIT TANUT Roope Siiroinen, 13.2.2019
Architectural Lighting – What Defines High-Quality Lighting?

What is high-quality lighting and how can it be evaluated? High-quality lighting is a harmony of many aspects.

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Architectural Lighting – the Basis for Aesthetical Lighting
KIRJOIT TANUT Roope Siiroinen, 03.1.2019
Architectural Lighting – the Basis for Aesthetical Lighting

Light is actually not a logical instrument to be systematically analysed or composed. As such, mastering the use of light requires the ability to process a visual entity in an emotional sense and letting go of logic. One might therefore conclude, that the aim of modern lighting architecture is to create the right kind of an atmosphere.

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A Lighting Designer is a Welcome Professional in Design Project
KIRJOIT TANUT Roope Siiroinen, 16.8.2018
A Lighting Designer is a Welcome Professional in Design Project

Lighting design is an interdisciplinary field, where one must understand the basis of other fields of design, their objectives and goals, and based on them, be able to make propositions in a form, on which others can take a stand. A lighting designer establishes collaboration between different quarters, designers and policy-makers.

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Transforming Lighting – Lighting Situations and Time Add a New Element to Architectural Lighting
KIRJOIT TANUT Roope Siiroinen, 07.8.2017
Transforming Lighting – Lighting Situations and Time Add a New Element to Architectural Lighting

Highlighting buildings with artificial lighting has become an inseparable part of the architectural entity. The idea of façade lighting is to highlight a building and its architecture and thus increase the significance, visibility and importance of the building in the night-time environment. Transforming lighting can create visually distinguished looks and moods and simultaneously adjust the amount of lighting to suit the purpose. One and the same feature may offer versatility varying from casual to festive, all for the delight of people.

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Aesthetic environment – Night-Time Spatial Planning
KIRJOIT TANUT Roope Siiroinen, 16.8.2016
Aesthetic environment – Night-Time Spatial Planning

Daylight brings everything out. Nightfall and darkness enable making choices and decisions regarding picturing the space and experiencing it, as well as its functionality.

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From the outset, lighting designed for a building or site is a way of telling its atmosphere, meaning and purpose. The façade thus emerges as its own interesting story from the dark.

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