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Attention to aesthetics with colour and light
Aircraft cabin designers and airlines try to tackle the issues of limited space within the aircraft cabins. After introducing mood lighting concepts, the industry is now seeking advanced solutions to combine the overall cabin appearance with special visual effects to create the illusion of more space in the cabin
For decades, aircraft interior designers focused on a pure functional approach, where passenger psychological effects had a rather limited influence on technical solutions. Even after the introduction of mood lighting and LED driven light sources, the overall cabin appearance was often neglected and not contemplated as a whole. Today, there is a better understanding of the need for the continuous recognition of colours, materials and services along the passenger interaction points, from check in to disembarking and the attention to lighting detail within the cabin environment. This also counts for features in close proximity to passengers and the overall look and feel for the aesthetics in the various cabin classes. Designers have a much better understanding of how light is manipulating our view of reality by influencing our emotions. Space, colour and light are related to each other and linked to the perception of the contemplator. SCHOTT Aviation has pioneered some of the
major trends in modern aircraft cabin design and integrated the balance between technology, design and market driven demands. “Each of these elements must be balanced against each other since they all impact one another”, says Dr. Armin Plichta, Business Manager, SCHOTT Aviation. If you look at the trend of cabin flexibility and consider individual passenger lighting, the lights most likely must be placed on the seat and no longer in the supply channel. Thus, electricity
must be made available to each seat particularly since airlines request in-seat power for their Economy Class. On the other hand, designers and manufacturers face integration challenges where space is limited. Major trends in the aviation interior design such as domes, different structures or flat beds support the illusion of space and add a luxury touch to the cabin environments of higher classes. Airlines have recognised that design and architecture are important instruments when it comes to differentiation.
By combining lighting expertise with technological know-how, SCHOTT developed an impressive number of solutions that interior designers were waiting for: wash lights for soft wall or ceiling illumination, super thin LED panels for homogeneous light effects like daylight simulation, flexible fibre optic cables for night sky applications and contour lighting wherever straight or curved light strips are requested. One of the most famous light design solutions is the Night Sky simulation with SCHOTT HelioStar. Here, the combination of light points with different sizes, light intensity and colour, creates the impression of a “natural” night sky. As space in monuments, galleys or seats is limited, linear lighting is a big challenge. Here, systems with fibre optic and/or LED parts are the answer and convince with attributes like high efficiency, reliability, life cycles and reduced
maintenance costs. Since no single design can fulfil all application
requirements for length, width and colour rendering, a whole zoo of applications can be created that can drive enormous investments to meet all FAA and / or EASA Certification standards. Dr. Armin Plichta explains a way out of this dead end: Hybrid lighting systems that combine LED light sources with fibre optic light guides enable a perfect working system even when space is limited. Therewith, the light source can be placed far away from the light output. Any kind of linear, indirect or punctual illumination can be realised this way. With a total installation depth of 7 mm no electrical testing or wiring is required. The fully qualified “SCHOTT HelioLine” holds unlimited potential for creative designers especially in combination with our LED light sources. “We are not limited in length and do not have to qualify our product every time all over again.”, says Dr. Plichta. This also opens new areas of applications like emergency or ambient lighting. SCHOTT Aviation has been active in the aviation sector since the beginning of the 1990s and offers its customers products especially designed for the aviation market. Innovative lighting solutions provide both an attractive design, as well as pleasant lighting conditions inside the cabin, while optoelectronic components and glass-to-metal seals offer greater safety in controlling an aircraft.
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