The Importance of Lighting in Interior Design

Historical Perspectives on Lighting in Interior Design

It is a natural fact that we feel comfortable in well-lit places. The aesthetic

mood of the places is also revealed with the lightnings applied to the artist in

addition to their accessories. Throughout the development of humanity, constant

changes and formations have occurred in his living areas and economies, so

architectural structures have come into existence. Major developments have

taken place in designing the interiors of homes and workplaces as a result of

civilizations. Thus, interior architectures and interior designs have emerged

,Until a certain period of time, in some architectural structures, the main

architectural lighting that exists is fed by daylight. However, problems such as

the right time of lighting, the different angle of the place, the transition of a

lightpath environment, have come to come across because of this source of

lighting. For this reason, light has begun to be artificially produced with

different techniques and areas. Thus, the architecture space improves its

aesthetic and its architecture emphasizes the aspects more strikingly.

Technological Advancements in Lighting Design

In the realm of lighting design, a field that has been broadened by exponential

developments in lighting technology, a multitude of new options open up daily.

Over the past several years specifically, major advances in technology have led

to immense improvements in the field of lighting, making it notably different

from the realm of design that it was originally understood as. The broad field of

technology in lighting design advances significantly more quickly than ability to

design and implement in interiors from a design perspective. As designers

struggle to keep up with the changing field, it is important to be aware of how to

use these new systems beneficially for various interiors.

Current lighting design is consistently moving in the direction of both energy

efficiency and automation. Energy efficient lighting solutions like LED systems

have been in the process of development for decades as energy conservation

becomes an increasingly important global effort (Jane Cook Turner, 2017). In

recent years, there have been rapid advancements that have made LED

technology more economical to manufacture and therefore more widely

available. Lighting control systems have long been a great way to control the

energy use of lighting of a space overall with timers or motion sensors.

However, with the rise of smart light technology, more becomes possible in

terms of individually tailored spaces. Many of these app controlled systems

allow users to select more personalized lighting options including brightness

and color temperature. As new technology continues to develop the focus on

automation within lighting environments will only continue to grow.

Technology has also developed in the direction of greater flexibility in design,

the newest of which are systems that adaptively control lighting for spaces that

change what they can do based on the time of day or activity being undertaken.

Chromotherapy installations in bathrooms, which use color changes in the

geometry of light in an environment, to affect the emotional atmosphere of a

space. However, there are enormous differences between wellness design

features that change experiences, and installations that truly alter functionality

of an environment. The developments toward adaptively controlled lighting

hope to create spaces that drastically change the potential experiences of a space

through lighting options. As a rapidly increasing area of awareness in the

Design Community, new technology in lighting systems must be weighed for

potential to benefit the specific space under considerations and not solely used

based on trend. This consideration must be paired with an increased

understanding of how such systems actually work. Integration becomes much

more complicated for spaces that already exist opposed to new construction.

Appropriate and professional consultation becomes integral in utilizing the

benefits of these new technologies within the interior spaces. (Odiyur et

al.2021(

Prepared by a student of the Department of Decoration Engineering:

Kale Karwan Omer

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