Nowadays, glass is used as a wall in many interior house buildings and commercial buildings, particularly In the flourishing city, glass wall building design is popular to apply. It seems a new tendency in the modern age. As the glass wall is widely applied, the lighting design for the glass wall is keen to be found out by many people. The choosing types of lamp, the installation ways of the lamp, and the choice of luminous mode, etc.
Why Now More Commercial Glass Buildings?
In the past, there is few people who used glass for the outside wall, because they are a lot of hidden security risks like damage and injury caused by self-explosion or falling off of curtain wall glass. But as the days goes by, the continuous maturity of working materials and means and the regular inspection of glass walls by departments, both reasons include the wall of glass and mud brick widely used. There are also various advantages to the use of exterior and interior glass walls.
Beauty design of the building
With the use of a wall of glass and mud brick not only makes the building shine and stand out during the day and night with natural light or artificial light but also creates a unique aesthetic appearance. By the way, it’s more easy for people to draw some decorations on the wall when the traditional holiday coming.
Reduce the entire structure’s dead load
Compared to the total brick wall, the wall of glass and mud brick are more light for the glass is a relatively lightweight material, so it can reduce dead load in the higher building, increasing the safety index.
Bright light
Glass has good light transmittance. During the white day, sunlight can give the room full light, which can reduce the use of light fixtures during the day. At night, the artificial light in the indoor room of the building can also light up the outside darkness. The building with glass wall at night just like a lighthouse for nightcrawlers.
Create ambiance lighting.
Through setting the smart dimmable LED lights indoor or outdoor of the wall, an ambience lighting can be easy created. Particularly in the house with a courtyard, the warm temperature color lighting reflects the flowers and trees through the glass, creating a warm atmosphere. If the method is applied in a service place like a coffee shop, the clients will have a good mood when sitting outside for a cup of coffee with friends.
With the use of the glass wall for beauty building, actually the lighting design is the key point. Lighting design may involve many elements like decoration angle, irritation angle, and the ways of installation, etc. So in the following how to improve the utilization efficiency of the lighting fixtures in the glass building are the important content in this article.
Glass building lighting Design
LED types of glass building choices.
There may many people wonder In the glass wall building will be caused many glares, if we do it properly in the below steps, the house may have good interior light during the day:
- Reduces the difference in brightness between the interior and exterior
- Eliminates potential glare
- Alleviates occupants' vision through glass walls
Recessed downlights are best for glass building ceilings, The lighting design is installed with the recessed LED downlight on the edge of the inner and outer ceiling of the glass wall. On the one hand, it is beneficial to better illuminate the courtyard outside when the indoor light is turned on, and can also illuminate the interior well when the outdoor light is turned on. It is worth noting that try not to turn on two rows of indoor and outdoor lights side by side at the same time, otherwise, it is easy to produce glare. And applied recessed ceiling light indoors more aesthetically pleasing when we look in the house on a white day.
If possible, you can carefully install the downlight located along the roof cornice in regular intervals to illuminate the lawn around the perimeter softly. With such kind of lighting effect, you may feel that the darker floor of the pavilion was levitation above the ground.
For reading, if there are some tables and chairs inside the house’s corner, set a dimmable freestanding light near the table.
For more about the glass wall building lighting design can look at the following picture for reference.
