Course in Commercial and Residential Lighting Design Online

Programme

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