How Is Hotel Lighting Designed?

      Hotel lighting design thing, we first need to have a general understanding of the type of hotel or hotel, for example, hotels and hotels are usually divided into business and tourism resort type, business-type hotels are usually located in economically developed metropolitan areas, the reception is business travel guests, highlighting the office, meetings, business banquets and other functions. Business hotels are usually located in economically developed metropolitan areas and receive business travellers, highlighting office, conference and business banqueting functions. On the other hand, this distinction is relative, and their functions often cross each other; in addition, in terms of architectural features, the various types of space divided between the interior and exterior of a hotel or guesthouse based on function are largely the same. Let us now move on to the main topic.

A, on the colour temperature of the lighting source

      1, to generally use warm white light source, colour temperature of 3000K or so based on: no matter what type of hotel, to create a friendly, warm and friendly atmosphere, should be their common aspirations, and colour temperature of 3000K light source provided by the lighting environment, can strengthen the wine point of this feature.

      2, based on the study of human visual temperature perception and spatial perception of colour, the hue of orange-yellow colour with the hue of blue-violet colour, when compared at the same time, orange-yellow makes people feel warm and close to us; based on memory, when the above colours are compared consecutively, the result is the same.

      3, This perception, in terms of depth of evocation at the psychological level, is closely linked to some psychological evaluation and emotional activity such as cordiality, warmth and friendliness.

      4, based on engineering practice, whenever a hotel lighting project, without interference from all sides, is able to thoroughly implement this principle, the results are very good.

B, the light colour of different categories of light sources in the split

      1, Take only incandescent and compact fluorescent lamps as an example. An incandescent lamp labelled 2800 K and a compact fluorescent lamp labelled 2850 K (or possibly 2700 K) only indicate that their colour charts are broadly consistent, but there are still subtle differences in the evaluation of the light colour (the colour chart and the light colour are still distinguished), i.e. the colour perception: due to their different spectral compositions, the light emitted by an incandescent lamp is very much like the cobalt or cadmium yellow of watercolour pigments, with a tone "The light emitted by compact fluorescent lamps is very much like an earthy yellow, with a somewhat muddy hue.

      2, so the lighting design should be targeted to choose the type of light source, in the same conditions of colour temperature, to weigh them in the luminous flux, the average life of the energy-saving, whether it is easy to maintain and light colour between the trade-offs, do not because of "green lighting", and do not use incandescent lamps.

      3, For example, the average lifespan of a good compact fluorescent lamp can reach 10,000 hours (compared to one-tenth of an incandescent lamp), which saves the hotel from the cost of replacing the lamp, but at the expense of "pure light colour".

      4, as for energy saving and extending the life of the bulb, on the current situation in China, a large part of the situation can be solved as the Bank of China headquarters building, combined with natural lighting and guest activities on the requirements of brightness, through intelligent control systems to dimming at the right time.

C, rational use of the relationship between colour temperature and illumination.

      Use the matching relationship between illumination and colour temperature to meticulously create a suitable space atmosphere. Generally speaking, colour temperature and illuminance should be proportional to the match, that is, high illuminance, high colour temperature, and vice versa. The habit of domestic hotel lighting design is often that the colour temperature is very high, but the illuminance is generally low, often into the "gloomy" atmosphere to go. This in the future design practice, to give sufficient attention.

D, direct lighting can be used, not indirect lighting methods.

      Light troughs have been widely used in all kinds of commercial space lighting, and even some flooding. With the development of electric light sources, lighting manufacturing technology, with direct lighting has been able to avoid the visual hazards of uncomfortable glare, so, unless the decorative requirements, otherwise, do not use light flux waste serious and inconvenient maintenance of various types of luminous troughs.

E, to achieve uniformity of tone

      Use the same colour temperature of the light source, to avoid the light colour of the same functional areas, surfaces and objects, using the same colour temperature of the light source, so that the light environment of the tone of unity. In terms of hotel lighting design, as the emphasis is not on conflict and drama, so a uniform colour palette is in line with the characteristics of the hotel. We note that some domestic interior design companies that have done a good job still have many problems in this regard.

F, the use of high luminous flux utilization rate of the illuminator

      1, the use of parameters after the optimization of the design, the luminous flux utilization rate of high luminaries. We often encounter such a situation, the total luminous flux of the original light source nominal is very high, but due to the choice of luminous flux output efficiency of the lamps and lanterns results in theoretical calculation of the illuminance value and the actual completion of the results measured by the illuminance meter is very different.

      2, it is recommended that in the luminaire manufacturer to provide the relevant luminaire efficiency parameters, light distribution curve parameters, such as doubt, to commission a relevant testing equipment units, testing.

G, choose the right light distribution

      For the room-to-space ratio of different functional areas of the hotel, the light intensity distribution of the light distribution curve, the central light intensity and half-light intensity and other light distribution parameters are screened to avoid the loss of light flux in two areas.

      1, for example, the hotel lobby is usually located in the podium of the building, the ceiling is usually very high, more than 6m high is very common, the choice of beam angle narrow, throwing light from the long distance of the luminaire, so that the upper part is not very bright, while the ground and 1m from the ground human activity area is not bright enough;.

      2, Conversely, if such a light distribution is used in areas with short ceilings such as guest rooms, the floor will be very bright and the vertical surfaces will not be sufficiently illuminated. The following two diagrams compare the PAR38/80W/beam angle 120 with the PAR56/300W/beam angle 400.

H, the more advanced the hotel, the higher the colour rendering index of the light source should be

      1, the colour rendering of the light source is generally used to evaluate the CIE colour rendering index, it is the 10 or so colour samples, including human skin colour, with the light source to be evaluated and the standard light source (full shade sky light) for colour display difference evaluation. In general terms, the higher the Ra of a light source, the better it is in terms of colour rendering.

      2, but it should be noted that, because Ra is taken as the average of the colour samples, so although some light sources have a high colour rendering index, the appearance of a particular colour may be poor. This point should draw attention to the hotel lighting design.

      3, in the domestic lighting standards and design practices, has been less attention to colour rendering, usually emphasizing the need for high colour rendering index light source only in places with colour recognition requirements. This is not the case, in general, people have more contact with places, especially hotels, guests can show a healthy skin tone is very important.

      4, in addition, good colour rendering light source than poor colour rendering, in the same conditions, can have a lower illumination. This is not to say that colour rendering can replace some of the illuminance, but that people should be clearer in their perception. The focus of hotel lighting design is much more than these issues, this article only covers the author's view, the current lighting design practice more prominent issues for lighting design colleagues to think about, discuss.

      For hotel managers, the choice of hotel lighting has always been a relatively difficult matter, because the environment of the various places in the hotel is different, so the choice of lighting should also pay attention to the consumer-oriented, the use of lighting to create a sense of the environment, so that consumers have a sense of home, which will not only help the hotel to generate revenue, but also to promote the hotel to obtain better development. Each hotel lighting designer has its own style and characteristics, each hotel also has its own style and application needs, I hope this article is helpful to you!

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