Course Overview
This course encourages students to produce creative, detailed lighting design solutions for residential and commercial spaces. Emphasis will be on concepts for lighting, practical applications, specifications and means to manipulate the human perception of space with light. Lamp and luminaire characteristics will be studied.
Prerequisite(s)
- Entrance Requirements and INTD 3100* (* may be taken concurrently as a co-requisite).
Credits
3.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Produce unique creative lighting design applications for residential and commercial spaces.
- Construct lighting layouts with basic schedule notes.
- Provide effective lighting concepts in accordance with the functions of a space.
- Evaluate the lighting requirements of various interior spaces, from functional, aesthetic and psychological perspectives.
- Identify various luminaires and their components.
- Explain the principles of various luminaires such as incandescent, fluorescent, and LED lighting and their appropriate uses.
- Demonstrate through case studies different lighting principles.
- Evaluate and understand brightness contrast.
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2014
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