Postgraduate Course in Commercial and Residential Lighting Design Online

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 programme features
• Where to download
• 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:

• Duplicate or build 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 (construction elements, Bolean 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 scenes

Daylight System:

• Daylight scene generation and calculation
  Calculation with daylight control system and skylight
• Sun shadow and daylight control options
• Facade' tool

Focus on work performed:

• Verification and correction of models produced by students in the classroom
• Questions and doubts about models and controls.

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.

Focus on work performed:

• Verification and correction of students' customised models at home
• Questions and doubts about models and controls.

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