Coloured Lighting, Urban Underground and Human Beings: relationship inquiry through showcase analysis
Keywords:
Color, lighting, visual perception, digital, designAbstract
The contemporary city appears as a chaotic entity, in continuous evolution and growth, with an increasing request of fast connections: for this reason a high number of design efforts are dedicated to support mobility flows on long/medium distances, favouring the use of underground spaces. These new infrastructures are perfect and efficient public interiors, conceived as “machine spaces” and designed ergonomically for a stereotype traveller [1]. As an opposite trends, several undergrounds were designed taking into account the qualitative perception of the space: they are completely transformed in containers of high-quality experiences for positive waiting periods especially through coloured and varied lighting. Quantity, intensity and distribution of light and also the dynamics of both the chromatic colour temperature (CCT) of white light and the hue of the coloured lighting can create a more interesting and comfortable environment. [...]
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