About the Project
Room 110 in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UWM is notoriously terrible when it comes to lighting and acoustics. Even through it is a small, 87-seat lecture hall, frequently students have a hard time hearing and staying awake because of the lack of stimulus and lack of adjustability. For the lighting and acoustics class, we were assigned to redesign the room with a partner. Our Lighting Design offers adjustable lighting schemes to provide appropriate levels of illumination based on the visual task and minimize visual distractions.
Project Design Highlights
- 4 lighting schemes based on Visual Task.
- Walls blocking line-of-sight to doorway.
- Indirect general illumination to provide consistent, glare-free light levels over seating.
- Ceiling panels act as area sources, they are lit by linear parabolic reflectors hidden above the panels.
- Wall sconces provide illumination to stairway and create a rhythm along the side walls.
- Point source spotlights illuminate the front of room and speakers.
- Remove line-of-sight distractions - Walls extending 6 feet into the room mark the entrance and reduce the visual impact of the door opening and closing and people entering, or, if the door is left open the walls block the flicker of people walking past in the corridor.
- Indirect illumination - Parabolic reflector was chosen to cast relatively consistent levels across panel to avoid undue brightness ratios. 50% diffuser placed along the top of the fixture to reduce the "hot spots."
