LANDSCAPE

LIGHTING
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*Landscape lighting has excessive potential
to enhance the landscape and provides
many benefits for both residential and
commercial applications.
*Landscape lighting can add safety, security,
ambiance, mood and drama to the outdoor
environment. Limited only to the designers
imagination, the practical functions and
various mood effects of landscape lighting
are endless.
1 SAFETY. One of the primary functions of LANDSCAPE
exterior lighting is to insure safe passage for
pedestrians on steps, sidewalks, walkways or other
LIGHTING
areas where aspects of the outdoor environment
may become a hazard at night. Safety lighting
typically projects downward and never into ones
eyes and is free from glare.

2SECURITY. Low levels of light evenly spread around the

perimeter of buildings can act as a preventive to intruders and
provide greater security than floods which create pools of light
along with dark shadows where someone can hide. Light sources
that emit low level light from the knee down silhouette prowlers
and make them visible from every angle.

3AMBIANCE AND DRAMA. Beauty, hospitality and

drama are enhanced by the proper selection and
placement of landscape lights. Choosing focal points of
architecture, art, unique features and landscape plant
material can add night time drama to the landscape
after the sun has set.
LIGHTING TECHNIQUES
1. Path Lighting

*This technique is used primarily for safety to highlight sidewalks, drives, or any
path to ensure safe pedestrian passage at night.

*Choose pathway lights offering downlighting with emphasis placed on fixtures

that incorporate diffused or shielded lamps.

*Avoid lighting that shines in the eyes. Since path light fixtures become an integral
part of the landscape during the day, attention should be paid to placement and
daytime appearance.

*Typical fixtures: mushrooms, tulip light, lantern, specialty lights

 2.Step / deck
Lighting
*Step lighting brings deck to life in night
and help us to navigate stairs safely during
night.

*Its fixtures can be installed beneath

benches, as recessed light in the risers of
3.underwater step and as a surface lights on vertical
Lighting posts.

*Underwater lighting highlights underwater *Typical fixtures: spot/accent light,

plant material and captures light to show off specialty lights
depth or imaginative design.

* Illuminating water-bodies not only increase

their attractiveness but also ensures safety in
dark.

*Cascading fountains and falls reflect light in

their movement adding a visual perspective to
the sound of rippling or spraying water.
 4. UP Lighting 5. down Lighting

* Uplighting means to light something *Mirroring the effect of the sun or the moon,
from below. downlighting is the most natural form of
landscape lighting.

*Uplighting is rarely seen in nature yet *Choose fixtures that can easily be mounted
this effect is typically used to highlight on eaves and walls or suspended from trees
the trees, statues etc. and other elevated structures.

*The Downlighting effect is used to provide

* and to produce large shadows and general illumination for safety, security or
dramatic facades or to “wash” walls with outdoor entertainment or it can be used to
light. focus on a singular object such as a statue or
specimen tree.
6. Architectural
Lighting
*The techniques of architectural
lighting are used to emphasize the
variation in texture as well as
architectural features in brick and stone
work, soffit details and facade.
*Architectural lighting can also be used
to enhance gateways, statues

*Spotlighting or Highlighting
* Silhouetting
* Shadowing
* Grazing Light
Spotlighting or Highlighting
This effect utilizes a narrow focused, deep beam of light to accent or highlight a specific
landscape object creating nighttime main point. Uplighting, downlighting or any combination
can be used to create a spotlighting effect; however, care should be given when spotlighting
since it has so much potential of ruining a subtle beauty and enhancement of the nightscape if
too much light is introduced.
 Silhouetting

Silhouetting is created when the image of a distinctive plant,

tree, statue or other landscape object is reflected against a wall
or other vertical surface. Lights are placed behind the plant
material or object to and direct the light upward onto the
backdrop to create this dramatic effect.

Shadowing
This effect creates a visual similar to silhouetting; however; the
fixture is positioned in front of the plant or object rather than
behind it. Since the shadow of the object is often magnified the
effect can be more dramatic than silhouetting.

Grazing Light
Grazing light is utilized to highlight and enhance the textures of
interesting surfaces such as cobblestone, masonry, stucco or
tree bark. Hooded fixtures with wide beam spread lamps are
ideal for this technique.
LIGHTING fixtures
1. Solar Lights

* Solar lights make use of tiny

photo voltaic cells (PV cells) or
solar powered cells to charge the
battery that is integrated into
lighting fixtures.
With PV panel
* Most manufactures prefer to
install PV cell into the lighting
fixture itself. These can’t work if
they are placed in shade.

* Other solar landscaping models

tend to separate the PV panel
from the lighting fixture. Thus the
PV panel will be able to receive
maximum sunlight. Drawback is
that wire have to be buried.
Without PV panel
2. fluorescent Lights

A long straight tube coated with phosphor

containing low pressure mercury that produces
white light.

3. halogen Lights

High pressure incandescent lamps containing

halogen gases such as iodine or bromine
allowing filament to be operated at higher
temperatures.

4. Luminaire
A complete lighting unit consisting of a lamp, ballast
as required with the parts designed to distribute the
light, position and protect the lamp and connect them
to power supply.
5. neon Lights
* Neon lighting consists of brightly glowing, electrified glass tubes or bulbs that contain
rarefied neon or other gases.
* Neon lights are a type of cold cathode gas-discharge light. A neon tube light is a
sealed glass tube with a metal electrode at each end, filled with one of a number of
gases at low pressure.
*Neon lights were named for neon, a noble gas which gives off a popular red light, but
other gases and chemicals are used to produce other colors, such
as helium (yellow), carbon dioxide (white), and mercury (blue).

6. Light emitting
diodes (led)

*Earlier only halogen or fluorescent lamps could provide the punch, color, and energy
savings for certain landscape applications, LEDs are now available with these important
attributes, as well as added benefits of very long life and durability.

*Light emitting diodes (led) are tiny light bulbs without filament that are illuminated
solely by the movements of electrons in a semiconductor material.
References-
-www.bculick.com
-thelandscapelightingsite.com
-LED LANDSCAPE LIGHTING GUIDE