Course in Commercial and Residential Lighting Design Online

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Do you want to become a lighting designer?

IDI's Specialisation Course in Commercial and Residential Lighting Design is a full-immersion course that will enable you to learn advanced design techniques in the arrangement of light sources, to create a skilful interplay of light and shadow and emphasise key elements of the surrounding environment.

THE TRAINING COURSE

In recent years, the figure of the Lighting Designer has become of paramount importance for any design or non-design project: the experience and expertise of the Lighting Designer is used not only in the field of lighting design, but also in the service of communication.

The objective of IDI's postgraduate course in Commercial and Residential Lighting Design is to acquire the industry skills necessary for the design of lighting for commercial and residential spaces.

Who is it addressed to?

A course in commercial and residential Lighting Design is aimed at a wide range of professionals and enthusiasts who wish to acquire technical, aesthetic and design skills in the field of lighting.

What you will learn

The language and design of light
Light applied to architecture
Theory and technology of lighting design
Light: photometric quantities, propagation and measurements
Color theory
Types of lighting and lighting direction
Lighting design and technic
CAD software for lighting
Case studies

Course program

Introduction

The language and design of light
Light applied to architecture
Historical notes about light
Lighting Design outdoor

How to read a technical catalogue

Advanced lighting techniques

How to control and monitor light

Technology of directing light

Presentation of concept and project

Rendering lighting effects graphically_ visualisation

Theoretical focus:

Main features of the Dialux programme
Search Engines
Design possibilities (examples of realised projects)
Introduction screens, preferences and command panels (Programme logic)
Display options panel and shortcut commands

Construction of a building:

Importing a dwg
Construction of external building perimeter
Interior construction
Windows and skylights
Room elements (pillars, ceilings)
Local name
Roof insertion

Construction of an advanced building:

How to duplicate or build a new plan
Inserting furniture (Dialux libraries and catalogues, importing 3ds files)
Arrangement of elements, align commands, replace objects, text elements and dimensions
Construction of multiple buildings
External building elements (element construction, Boolean operations)
Construction of outdoor areas and dehors (swimming pools, fields, gardens, ramps)

Theoretical focus_ Lights:

Different types of luminaires and their applications in various areas of design.
Analysis of the main photometric characteristics of a luminaire.
Inserting photometries (Uld, ies, ldt)
Inserting photometries from manufacturer plug-ins
Luminaire arrangements
Projector aiming
Creating lamp group scenes and standard lighting scenes
Modification of luminaires and emission/spectrum data - colour filters
Hints of natural light

Daylight System:

Daylight scene generation and calculation

Calculation with daylight control system and skylight

Sun shadow and daylight control options
Facade' tool

Calculation:

Generating useful surfaces and calculation objects
Calculation surface generations
Generating task area surfaces
Setting calculation options
Results (reading and interpretation - graphs and false colours)
Retail Project assignment to be customised in layout.

Render:

Materials and textures (creating coloured materials, textures and tilts)
View Setting
Render in raytrace | HDR
Saving views and options
Raytrace render settings
Post-production rendering in Photoshop for better realism and correction of visualisation errors.

Template export options (generation and selection)

Project data entry

Result displays (false colours - calculation surfaces)

PDF export

DWG export

Case studies

Team working

CAD software for lighting

Job opportunities

The Specialisation Course is aimed at architects, engineers, designers and planners. The Lighting Designer specialising in commercial and residential spaces can work as a freelancer, with architecture and design studios or collaborate with lighting shops.

Course Phases

Preparatory lessons: Texts + online platform
Online classroom phase
Project work: 45 days to develop a commercial and/or residential lighting design project following the outline given by the lecturer.

Facilitations

Possibility of financing the registration fee
Reworking and updating the CV for dissemination to companies in the sector at the end of the national training course.

Issued certificates

Certificate of attendance online classroom phase
Project Work Certificate

The professional figure

The lighting designer of commercial and residential spaces is a professional figure specialised in the design and optimisation of lighting for indoor and outdoor environments, with a specific focus on contexts such as shops, restaurants, showrooms and private homes, villas, condominiums. This figure is indispensable for enhancing spaces and improving the quality of life through light, creating environments that combine aesthetics, functionality and efficiency, and offering customised solutions that respect budgets, technical constraints and sustainability requirements.

Eccellente

Italian Design Institute ®

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Regina Grompone Fotografia

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Lorenzo Immacolato Masullo

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Camy Caranci

Ottima esperienza formativa dove ho trovato docenti molto professionali, la tutor Martina molto disponibile con noi, dei compagni di corso simpatici soprattutto bravi.. Come prima esperienza a Milano sono rimasta molto soddisfatta e colpita da questo Istituto che mi ha fatto conoscere nuove emozioni..
Ringrazio Italian Design Institute per questa esperienza.

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