Blog subjects for Week 5: Please go to the blog at least twice or three times during the week. Respond to each other's findings.
1. Reflected Ceiling Plans. Look in your text and online find out all you can about RCP's and review that information here on the blog. You can also give web addresses for images of sample RCP's that you find.
2. Luminaires. From your text, architectural lighting magazines (in Ai library) and web searches. What can you find out and share.
Here is a link for you to look at on luminaires
http://www.illuminart.net/rr/docs/Articles/PLD_Basics/PLDbasics3.pdf
Reading Assignment for Week 5 (be prepared to discuss in class):
From the Winchip text- Chapter 5 Lighting Systems: Luminaires and Chapter 11 Lighting Design Process: Project Planning through Design Development
Also the in class assignment today can be finished as homework and go into the drop off. Here it is:
Search the World Wide Web for three luminaire manufacturers. For each manufacturer, locate the photometric reports for each of the fixtures you are using in the Island Getaway. On the drop offprovide the following information: (a) a summary of the photmetric data for each luminaire; (b) comparison of photometric data of each manufacturer; and (c) an analysis of how an interior designer would utilize the photometric data in designing a quality lighting environment. Cover both your interior and exterior lighting. Chapter 4 from your text is related to this exercise.
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According to the NCIDQ the "'Reflected ceiling plan' means a ceiling design that illustrates a ceiling as if it was projected downward and may include lighting and other elements."
In my experience, it does not only include elements of lighting, but also has other fixtures (such as fans)and it can show the height of the ceiling.
Here is an example:
http://www.about-building-in-canada.com/images/Reflected-Ceil-Plan07.jpg
On my next blog I will write about Luminaires.
http://www.ncidq.org/who/definition.htm#non
Slow start with the blog this week. I would like to see multiple posts with reactions to each other's findings.
That is a great observation, Kristin. I found some additional information regarding reflected ceiling plans from reading chapter 11. Being an overlay of the floor plan, the ceiling plan may illustrate the location of columns, HVAC equipment, luminaires, ceiling tiles, and any other element located on the ceiling. This plan also supplies a legend with a description for each of the symbols used. Providing a reflected ceiling plan is so important because “once a project proceeds beyond the schematic and design development phases, changes to the design can be expensive or even impossible.”
Luminaires seem to have endless design possibilities and can have their light distributed in five different ways. They are: Direct, Indirect, Semi-Direct, Semi-Indirect, and Diffused. They can also be mounted in many different ways, such as: recessed, surface-mounted, suspended, track, structural, and furniture-integrated units. For my Getaway House, I actually designed a bed with a furniture-integrated lighting system. I found it very interesting that I chose wood, which is what was listed as one of the most common materials in the text for that particular type of lighting system.
A link to an RCP:
http://www.pacecompumetrics.com/design/ref_ceiling_plan.htm
As Jamie was saying, "luminaires have endless design possibilities." This is very true. I thought it was very interesting when Tim mentioned in class that light can be seen as a hot or cool color. It makes perfect sense. For example, the stars (including our sun) appear in shades from red to a bluish-white. These colors are produced by the amount of energy the star is using. A Red star burns at a far cooler temperature than a white or blue star. A blue star is the hottest star; therefore, producing and using much more energy. It still amazes me how everything in the universe seems to relate or be identical with even something as ordinary as a household light.
In response, RCP's will help for analyzing the functional and aesthetics of the horizontal plane and establish continuity of the design style when properly thought out. The RCP helps us the ID visulize how well the arrangement addresses the elements and principles of design. Also, to follow up with what Kristen and Jamie said, you need to include anything that is attached or intersects with the ceiling and don't forget the ceiling heights. When choosing luminaries, an ID has to take careful consideration and analize the site and user of space and also consider the daylighting and natural lighting path. i will give a web address next.
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