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BBC DESIGN RULES Anteckningar  Interior design defined by lighting - able to transform a room! 2 aspects to light design 1) Make the most out of daylight, understand its effects and improve your surroundings and your health. Humans are drawn to light the same way plants are drawn to light. 2) The plug in type, which can transform the room  Studio - how light affects the design! Layering system.  Understanding daylight As a species we spend more time inside than outside. The lighting directly affects your mood. Maximise daylight! Maximising daylight can be a problem - houses built before the war for example. Slanted window to direct the sunlight from a window Make sure there is not too much going on in the room around the window. Put in mirrors for example! Rooflights created puddles of sunlight, Redistribute the light if there is an unbalance of light. How can daylight be accentuated?  Most british light is ambient, sneaking through cloudy skies. What is going on outside the room influences what goes on inside the room! Light outside of the building changes throughout the year. Build that into the design scheme to account for seasonal variation! Light - the animator of space. Rooflight - lets out twice as much sun as a regular window. Uncomfortable in highly contrast lighting. Quality and color of daylight varies from where you live (Sweden vs South of Europe).  The color plays a huge part Red oranges brown black - hold daylight like a sponge, refusing to bounce it back into the room. Pale green, lilac, pastels → bounce the light back into the room by reflecting it. Absorb vs reflected light . Light is red yellow green blue indigo and violet . When light hits a red wall most parts of the spectrum will be absorbed, except for the red, which is reflected. (colors like that tend to close up a space) General rule: the lighter the color, the higher the reflectance value. A lot of white = high light value. The choice of what you put on the floor affects the room! Surface finish has huge affects as well Matt finish = scatter light

Matt dark floors = diffuse the light, not reflect HIgh gloss = reflect the soft northern light Amplify the light in the room = mirror! Intensify and reflect the feeble northern daylight Bright and fresh and as little patterns as possible to maximise the light (OBS gardinerna i matsalen och klassrummen). Our biological clocks follow the path of the sun Our senses are stimulated by the light Light affects our nervous system. Sleep hormone - melatonim Seasonal affected disorded (SAD) → 11% of the people in England and Sweden. (1% in south america!) Distance from the natural source of light. Electric light You will never be able to light a room as efficiently as the sun does.  The 3 layers of lighting 1)General light (surprised it’s still a legal requirement in newly built buildings. Goes back to the days you used to hang your gas light in the middle of the room). (one intense light source vs 4 light sources that DIFFUSE the light and you can also point it) 2) Accent lighting - creates mood. (candles)  3) Task lighting (illuminating an area that has a specific task to it, light to read a book for example)  Each layer must be controlled individually. A lighting plan! Distribute the light equally. Do not cast shadows. Low sodium lighting - narrow range of wavelenght (car park) Low voltage downlight - good at reproducing color, come close to daylight! (good for bathrooms and kitchens).  This part of the world → warm lights  Warm parts of the world - cold lights! (you want to cool down when you go indoor)          ...