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big kitchens with snugs and family areas, which merge seamlessly into dining rooms, garden rooms, and orangeries, which in turn are increasingly integrated with patios and gardens. This has necessitated a real change in thinking for lighting designers, because instead of taking these immensely important living areas in room-by-room stages, they are now forced to think on a much wider scale to embrace the whole area. The first principle is to establish the
client’s lifestyle and to understand how the lighting is required to reflect and to mirror this. Hampshire Light designer Bruce Reynolds says: “The challenge is to create intelligent zones of light which can be easily controlled for different activities and moods, whilst still maintaining uniformity and a continuation of style throughout.” Andrew Orange, founder of Orange
Lighting, sees it as part of a wider lighting evolution: “The principles of good lighting design have not changed, it’s how relevant they now are to a wider audience that is the interesting fact. “What was once reserved for the high-
end residential market, has now become a consideration for the majority. As a society we have become more demanding for good design from a mobile phone to our lighting, we are a more discerning public. The rise of the open plan space has forced the user/ designer to consider multi-functional spaces, which impact upon our lighting design choices.”
ADAPTABLE ILLUMINATION With open plan living as the modern norm the lighting needs to be adaptable for the various functions of the space. No longer can we simply identify what a room’s main function is and specify a single source of light. We need to design flexibility into the lighting solution using several zones of light across the space - each zone contributing to either a task or function, but also adding to the overall scheme effect. Individual zones of light can be dimmed
or controlled within a scene of light, the scene of light being programmed to suit the user’s requirements in the space at that time. Scenes can be across an open plan space to suit a function whether cooking in the kitchen, entertaining at the dining table, or watching a late movie. Selecting the scene allows fading of light levels on each zone. LightMedium’s Ferrier says: “Each
zone of lighting will be specified to meet a function, for example in the kitchen, but can also if dimmable contribute to general feel of the overall open plan space. When the kitchen is not in use, a low level light zone may be dimmed as a vista while watching television in the lounge so the remainder of the immediate space is not in complete darkness.” Sensio’s Linsky adds that what it all
comes down to is total flexibility in the design concept: “Lighting companies have had to adapt their approach in order to provide functional lighting solutions which
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