Interior Lighting for Designers

ft × 4 ft, 2 ft × 4 ft, and 2 ft × 2 ft; the last of these is used when a nondirectional (square) ceiling element is desired. Be ...

Prismatic lensesincorporate a pattern of small prisms or other refractive elements to reduce the brightness of the luminaire and ...

Wash Lights Wash lightsare luminaires that provide an even “wash” of relatively uniform brightness, usually on a wall but occasi ...

eliminating the parabolic scallop that is cre- ated by the normal, conical light pattern when it intersects a wall. The downligh ...

doorway and causing glare (downlight/half wall-washer) (figure 12.20). Downlight/wall-wash luminaires have downlight distributio ...

INTERIOR LIGHTING FOR DESIGNERS Figure 12.21Recessed PAR38 lensed wall-washer. ...

LUMINAIRES Figure 12.22Surface-mounted PAR38 lensed wall-washer. ...

INTERIOR LIGHTING FOR DESIGNERS Figure 12.23Pendant-mounted PAR38 lensed wall-washer. ...

LUMINAIRES Figure 12.24Track-mounted PAR38 lensed wall-washer. ...

that combines an ellipse with a parabola (fig- ures 12.25 through 12.27) or they use non- focal shapes. Open-reflector wall-wash ...

LUMINAIRES Figure 12.26Surface-mounted tungsten-halogen T4 wall-washer. Figure 12.27Track-mounted tungsten-halogen T4 wall-washe ...

INTERIOR LIGHTING FOR DESIGNERS Figure 12.28Fluorescent reflector wall-wash luminaire. ...

Linear wall-washers Continuous slotsare located in the ceiling next to the wall and can enclose other kinds of wall-wash luminai ...

compound-contour reflectors, fluorescent lamps have difficulty projecting a high inten- sity toward the bottom of a wall. The fo ...

LUMINAIRES Figure 12.31Manufactured linear wall-washer system includes linear spread lenses to distribute light evenly across th ...

Vertically mounted fluorescent channels are used for wash light when the ceiling height is low and the placement of overhead equ ...

suspended from the ceiling by stems or cables; mounted on top of furniture above eye level; or attached to walls, columns, or th ...

Uplights are especially suitable for high- ceilinged rooms, which permit the luminaires to be positioned far enough below the ce ...

a large-area diffusing source. Coves are useful to supplement more energy-effective lighting methods, such as recessed down- lig ...

ping lamps achieve the same result (figure 12.40). When space constraints limit the cove design so that the source is located to ...