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A Study of the Classical Architecture Floodlighting. L&E 25 (4) 2017

Light & Engineering 25 (4)

Volume 27
Date of publication 12/20/2017
Pages 57-64

A Study of the Classical Architecture Floodlighting. L&E 25 (4) 2017

Articles authors:

Wojciech Żagan, Rafał Krupiński

Prof. Since 1997, he is a Head of the Lighting Division of Warsaw University of Technology, author of more than one hundred of ﬂ oodlighting projects in Poland, The Netherlands and Germany, author of books "Floodlighting of the objects" (2003) and “Floodlighting, theory and practice” (2016). He supervised thirteen doctors’ theses in the area of lighting technology

Ph. D., graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology in 2003. He is specialist of ﬂ oodlighting using computer graphics simmulations methods. While making this method popular and implementing a few dozen ﬂ oodlighting designs with its use over more than a decade of his work, he continues by improving it, he is the author of books „3D Modeling for ﬂ oodlighting” (2011) and „Floodlighting, theory and practice” (2016). He is also lecture at the Warsaw University of Technology at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Lighting Division, where he occupies the post of an Assistant Professor

Abstract:

Designing historic building floodlighting belongs to fairly complicated tasks. Apart from a purely technical imagination and adherence to ? oodlighting principles and methods, aesthetic aspects should also be taken into account. Predicting the effect, which will be created, is a very di? cult thing. It is often impossible for us to check, owing to the dimensions of the illuminated structures, number of the used lighting equipment and its installation capabilities. Here comes 3D computer graphics. The paper presents a case study of ? oodlighting Palace of the Commonwealth in Warsaw, Poland. A few concepts of illuminating the palace have been described, the analysis of e? ects has been made and the concept that after some consultations was selected for implementation has been demonstrated. All the ? oodlighting designs are shown in a form of the photorealistic visualization of lighting with a description of the intended and obtained e? ects. Apart from the visual evaluation, the level of the building luminance was carefully monitored under the project.

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