Have you ever walked in a park at night? When the lights come on, the familiar scenery is given a new charm. Do you feel exceptionally relaxed and comfortable? Behind this, landscape lighting has played an indispensable role.
Reasonable landscape lighting can not only create a charming night view, but also improve the park's practicality. Today, we will introduce the concepts of park lighting and landscape lighting, and distinguish the lighting design ideas of different types of parks.
What is Landscape Lighting?
Landscape lighting is a lighting method that illuminates and beautifies outdoor spaces through lighting design, making buildings, plants, water features, etc. more prominent at night. This lighting concept is mainly used in areas such as gardens, squares and parks.
Landscape lighting is not only a part of functional lighting, but also an art. For example, colorful lights in festivals and neon lights on commercial streets are all part of landscape lighting. It creates a unique visual effect through the combination of light and environment, making outdoor spaces full of charm at night.
What is Park Lighting?
Park lighting is part of landscape lighting, which is designed specifically for park places.
Through clever landscape lighting design, we can make the paths in the park safe and warm, make the beautiful sculptures more eye-catching at night, and make the waterscape sparkle under the light.
Compared with landscape lighting, park lighting has some of its own characteristics and requirements. Different types or themes of parks require different lighting design ideas, and even different areas in the same park have different lighting focuses.
But the same goal is to highlight the natural and cultural landscape, facilitate tourist activities, save energy and protect the environment.
Landscape Lighting Ideas for Different Parks
Urban Park
Urban parks are usually the main public spaces for citizens' activities. The lighting focus should be on trails, square areas and landscape decoration areas.
Due to the large flow of people in urban parks, trail lighting can use evenly distributed LED column lights or embedded floor lights to ensure walking safety.
LED floodlights are used in square areas to create an open and bright activity space.
Featured landscapes such as sculptures, flower beds or fountains can be highlighted by projection lights and decorated with hidden light strips.
Because park lighting is mainly used at night, it is recommended to use warm white light (3000K-4000K) as the main lighting effect in rest areas, lawns and other areas to create a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere.
Historical and Cultural Park
Historical and cultural parks focus on displaying cultural heritage, so the lighting design needs to highlight the cultural atmosphere while protecting historical buildings. The overall lighting effect should be based on warm light (2700K-3000K), which can better set off the cultural atmosphere.
Ancient buildings and figure sculptures can use LED floodlights to accurately illuminate the details, and underground lights can be used to enhance the sense of layering. Trails and rest areas choose low-key floor lamps to avoid being the centerpiece.
Natural Ecological Park
The lighting design of natural ecological parks is usually based on protecting the environment and displaying natural landscapes. Therefore, lighting needs to emphasize soft lighting and protection of the ecological environment.
It is recommended to use low-brightness, anti-glare ground lights on trails and plank roads to avoid direct light. This not only provides necessary light, but also reduces interference with animals and plants.
For the aesthetics of vegetation lighting, LED floodlights or wall washers can be used to present the three-dimensional sense of trees and shrubs. For waterscape lighting, underwater lights or light strips emphasize the flowing beauty of lakes, streams or waterfalls.
Theme Park
Theme parks are usually entertaining and artistic, and their lighting design needs to match the theme style to create an immersive experience.
Most theme parks require the creation of dreamy scenes to attract tourists to take photos and check in. So intelligently controlled dynamic LEDs are a better choice. It can synchronize music changes.
Check-in buildings similar to fairy tale castles can use projection lights to project animations to enhance the sense of story.
Whether it is an urban park, ecological park, theme park or other types of parks, landscape lighting injects new vitality into them at night. If you have any needs for LED landscape lighting products, please feel free to contact us!
