Lighting Design - Toward a synthesis of science, media technology and architecture

Abstract

Light as a multi-dimensional design element has fundamental importance for a sustainable environment. The paper discusses the need for an integration of scientific, technical and creative approaches to light and presents theory, methods and applications toward fulfilling this need. A theory of design developed from three experiments show how distinct qualitative and quantitative criteria in different disciplinary traditions can be integrated successfully, despite disparate technical/scientific, social scientific and art/humanities backgrounds. The model is applied to a pedagogical curriculum in the context of multi-level learning competencies.

Balanced Brightness Levels: Exploring how lighting affects humans’ experiences of architectural and social urban contexts.

“…The combination of methods and knowledge across research disciplines in the BBL project is based on the transdisciplinary process model 'The Architectural Experiment', hereinafter the AE model (figure 1) [5]. The AE model illustrates a transdisciplinary and knowledge-based design process in horizontal steps 1-5.…”

“…Furthermore, the paper describes how research methods from natural science, social science and arts/humanities were combined in a transdisciplinary process of conducting the four studies. 'The Architectural Experiment' -model [5] was used to structure this process. The four studies are further described in two conference papers, a journal paper, as well as a book chapter [1,2,3,4].…”

Balanced Brightness Levels: Exploring human sensory experience of lighting and darkness in urban public contexts

“…In this PhD study, the combination of methods and knowledge across research disciplines are based on the transdisciplinary process model 'The Architectural Experiment' (Hansen, 2014). This model illustrates a process consisting of pre-analyses using methods from diff erent research disciplines that feeds knowledge into a fi eld experiment.…”

“…Then the transdisciplinary process model 'The Architectural Experiment' (hereinafter the AE model) (Hansen, 2014) is presented. Followed by a description of how the AE model has been guiding for this PhD study and which methods have been used in each step of the PhD study.…”

“…Architects have historically collaborated with several research disciplines. Since architecture involves both: the unmeasurable and measurable, imagined and the built world, art and technical solutions (Hansen, 2014). Vitruvius (ca.…”