Industrial Design & Architectural Lighting: Can they coexist? Are these two definitions the perfect match? The future of lighting design plans include industrial design lamps? We have all these questions inside our mind an we decide to do something about them.
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Today, we are going to dig deep and try to find the answer to the best lighting questions that need to stop hanging around our heads. Let’s star from the beginning:
If you go to wikipedia, this is what you’ll find on Industrial design:
- IndustrialDesign is a process of design applied to products that are manufactured through techniques of mass production
Example of IndustrialDesignLamps:
When it comes to Architectural Lighting Design this is what you’ll find:
- Architectural Lighting Design is a field within architecture and architectural engineering that concerns itself primarily with the illumination of buildings.The objective of architectural lighting design is to obtain sufficient light for the purposes of the building, balancing factors of initial and operating cost, appearance, and energy efficiency.
In a nutshell, industrial design is a style one could incorporate in the architectural lighting but they are use with a higher purpose than just to light up the building they and the building structure are intrinsic related to one another.
For instances if you saw this building without the light incorporated in them…they would be tasteless mountains of iron:
In a nutshell, the lighting pieces in the architectural design lighting plan don’t need to be of an industrial design but they sure have to be though out having in mind the style and materials of the building. Nowadays, it’s more usual to see more mid century modern buildings that vintage one but hey…it’s a question of taste.
