What are the means to define our urban spatial perception through lighting?
It is said that “the city never sleeps”, and this is especially noticeable at night when the lights come to life. Urban Choreography focuses on the shifting perceptions of scale within an urban context and explores lighting methodologies for creating intimate pedestrian experiences in the city.
A typical site resonates with its adjacent surroundings, influencing our experience as we pass from one type of urban space to another.
While inspecting this site, we organised lighting into four distinct relationships with the visitor: the Urban, the Landscape, the Plaza, and the Threshold.
The upper illustration captures the scale variation of a visitor’s journey from a public transportation hub to new development. The lower illustration shows how a more intimate human scale plays in context with the subtle variation of lighting fixture heights.
Our propositions for four typical sites show dramatic variation is possible through contextual adaptation. The coloured diagrams delineate different scales of luminaires to people, ranging from the intimate experience on the right-hand side of the colour bar to a larger scale experience on the left-hand side.