Outdoor lighting

Outdoor lighting is the soul of the city. The richness of nightlife directly reflects the vitality, charm and competitiveness of a city.

1.Square lighting mainly

Square lighting is mainly composed of fountain, square ground and landmark, tree array, entrance and exit lighting of underground shopping mall or subway, and surrounding green space, flower garden and other environmental lighting. The shape and area of the square are both amorphous and of various styles. In order to set up lighting, it is necessary to grasp the premise of meeting the functional lighting and give full play to the function of the square according to the inherent characteristics of the square.

2.Tower landscape lighting

Tower body is usually composed of base, tower body, tower top and other basic parts, which constitute a harmonious whole. The complete lighting performance of each part of the tower is very important. Only one part of the tower will alienate the overall image of the tower.

The top part of the tower is usually for long-distance viewing, and the lighting brightness should be appropriately higher. The tower body is often the part with rich details and bearing the architectural style. Therefore, it is necessary to select the lighting methods, depict the tower components and carvings in detail, and highlight the main parts of the tower body with emphasis lighting methods.

3.Bridge lighting

Bridge is often in the city's traffic arteries, is an important part of the overall effect of urban landscape lighting. Green space should be set up in the bridge area, which plays an important role in regulating the landscape environment of the bridge area and should be fully utilized. Viewing the panoramic pattern of overpass from high view point, there are not only the outline of lane edge lines, but also the light composition and sculpture in the green space, as well as the bright line formed by street lights in the bridge area. These light elements are integrated to form an organic whole picture.

4.Waterscape lighting

Waterscape is an important part of landscape architecture. There are many forms of waterscape, including the wide water surface and rippling big lake waterscape, as well as streams, fountains, waterfalls and cement pools. The night scene lighting method of the water surface is mainly to make use of the water surface to create a real scene and the lighting of the trees and railings on the shore to form a reflection on the water surface. The reflection and the real scene contrast each other, set off, positive and negative, coupled with the dynamic effect of reflection, make people interesting and beautiful.

For fountains and waterfalls, underwater lighting can be used. Underwater lights of the same or different colors are arranged in a certain pattern to illuminate upward. The effect is magical and interesting.

5.Lighting of ancient buildings

Chinese classical architecture can be said to be unique and self-contained. It has its own inherent characteristics in material, shape, plane and spatial layout. The main buildings are in the middle, and other buildings are developed to both sides according to the central axis. The architectural form is basically composed of terrace base, roof and body.

The roofs of Chinese classical buildings are often made into soft curves, and the eaves around them are stilts and covered with grey tiles or glass tiles. This is one of the inherent characteristics of Chinese classical architecture. Therefore, it is the key to accurately grasp this feature and highlight it in the form of light at night.