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Week1 Workshop case study

Research and reflection about ’10 Things About Light’

About the fifth topic mentioned： consider what you are lighting and why? Is it necessary to light?

This question made me think of the food market lighting, in Chinese food markets often use red lighting in the meat area, so I thought why do we need to use red lighting? After some research and learning about the theoretical knowledge of lighting colours, I learnt that red light is the easiest to get people’s attention, it can make people excited and agitated, and secondly, it is also easy to cause visual fatigue, so the eyes are not good at distinguishing the changes of objects under red light, we often have a blurred feeling of not being able to see under red light. At the same time, the colour of the opaque object is determined by the colour light it reflects, the opaque body of a certain colour mainly reflects the colour light of the same colour, while almost all other colour light is absorbed. The use of red light in the meat area, whether the meat itself is fresh or not, reflects only red light, the fresh ones are brighter and the unfresh ones regain their luster, which helps to stimulate the consumer’s desire to buy.

In addition, I am also interested in the ninth topic, which mentions the path of sunlight, and I think that natural light is also an object to be considered when considering interior design. When natural light passes through the skin of a building in different ways and enters an interior space, it shapes the character of the space with its own unique language, creating different spatial atmospheres. This reminds me of the Pantheon in Rome, where a circular hole was left in the dome, and a beam of sunlight was directed into the temple from the dome during the day, the beam of light wandering with the rising and falling of the sun, thus producing various changes in the atmosphere of the interior space, suggesting a sacred power.