Lighting basics
To choose the perfect lighting for your office project, it's essential to understand the basics of light. Key factors include its quality, the importance of uniform lighting, where to incorporate contrast, and ensuring visual comfort. You should also consider how lighting can be adjusted for different times of day and how energy-efficient solutions can reduce environmental impact. All of these elements are critical to optimising your lighting design.
A guide for your office
Different needs call for different solutions. This brochure will guide you through the lighting of every aspect of an office environment. We start with the reception area, where a welcoming lighting arrangement is preferred, then move on to functional lighting in stairwells and corridors, and finally to adjustable solutions in open-plan offices. We look at each application and explain how best to meet each challenge.
Office areas
Meeting / Conference Room
Lighting in a meeting room is crucial for creating a conducive environment for discussions, presentations, and collaborative work.
Proper lighting enhances visibility, comfort, and focus, making it easier for meeting participants to engage effectively. By balancing ambient, task, and accent lighting, and incorporating smart controls and natural light, a meeting room can be transformed into an efficient and inviting environment.
Individual Spaces
In an individual or ‘closed’ office layout, lighting plays a vital role in shaping the working environment for a particular person. It’s essential to find a balance between functionality and comfort, ensuring that the lighting meets the needs of the worker while being in harmony with the office design. It’s a dynamic and inviting space, usually used by managers or team leaders, where particular attention is paid to the aesthetics and mood of the space.
Reception
Reception lighting plays a crucial role in creating a welcoming space for visitors while also supporting the tasks of receptionists. It would be a good idea to ensure that the reception desk is well lit with targeted lighting. This helps receptionists perform their duties and interact with visitors comfortably and efficiently. The aesthetic choice of light fixtures is fundamental, as they should follow the aesthetics of the overall design of the area.
A case in comfort
Explore how offices around the world are using innovative lighting to increase efficiency, support adaptability and create an enjoyable working environment. By delving deeper into real-life examples, the strategic approach to lighting design becomes clear and provides inspiration for your next project.
Cases
WeWantMore Studio | Antwerp
The new studio layout features open, collaborative spaces that encourage spontaneous interactions and brainstorming among team members. Great attention was paid to the indirect lighting of the ceilings for different purposes: to highlight the buidling’s architectural structure, provide a general lighting base for the entire office, and make the ceiling appear higher. Furthermore, in combination with dedicated desk lighting, different lighting scenes can be achieved to suit different functions and times of day.
Formo Bio | Germany
With a focus on lighting technology, the Soliscape system was a perfect fit for this project. The system’s great flexibility and sound absorption, which is of importance due to the high, exposed ceilings and lots of glass, worked in Soliscape’s favour. In addition to its original function as a lighting solution, Soliscape has become a distinctive design element in open office spaces and semi-public areas.
Mallol Arquitectos | Panama
The philosophy of the project was that the original space fosters the creation of a new space to answer a diversity of needs.
The predominantly white colour was used to evoke light, amplitude, and reflection, resulting in open, bright, and flexible multipurpose spaces without hierarchy. This allowed for more fluid communication, continuous creativity, and collaboration, stripping the building to the most essential task of architecture: design.
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