Exterior Lighting Concepts (An Architect's Guide)

There are two fundamental points to understand about outdoor lighting. The first is that we actually require much less light in outdoor living situations than indoors, which means the overall lighting can generally be more theatrical and less focused on tasks.
The second is that in lower ambient light situations, we actually prefer lower color temperature light (warmer); it’s actually visually more comfortable. Whether it’s our primal draw to the flickering flame of fire or the fact that warm light renders the skin so naturally, our outdoor design objective is to aim for low, warmly toned lighting levels.
In this video we'll review the general concepts pros think about when considering how to light outdoor spaces. Specific topics covered are:
1) The Lantern Effect - using a structure's glazed walls to provide ambient light to nearby exterior spaces.
2) Layering of light - ambient, task and accent light tips.
3) Path lighting
4) Color (and) temperature
5) Object or sentinel lighting
6) Fire
7) Wall washing
8) Dynamic range and dimming
9) Uplighting
10) Light pollution
Architects featured in this video:
John Pawson, Messana O'Rourke, Eric Reinholdt | 30X40 Design Workshop, Amantea Architects, Dumican Mosey, The Construction Zone, Shades of Green, Tobin Dougherty, Wagner Hodgson, Abodwell, Perello, William Duff, Link Architecture, Turnquist, Ruhl Walker, Tinmouth Chang, Ziger Snead, Bates Masi
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Wow this video is a golden nugget...I never looked at lighting the way you described. Very well done and thanks for sharing your knowledge. Now, I've a completely different perspective to lighting.

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I love this concept mainly the 3D light 💜

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I love your input ....

[@MaZEEZaM]

Hi Eric, what type of stone is used in the pond steps? at 3:25? I particularly like this stone.

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Outstanding video

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beautifully done and explained

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Thanks!

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[@Copernicus222]

Eric, where do you pull your (great!) images from? Any royalty-free resources you can recommend?

[@iyakiniku]

Can you also do interior lighting and how to compute for it? Thanks!

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[@30by40]

Cheers!

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Great demonstrations of your premises, but are limited to high-end locations very modern in design. How about some ideas for your average 3 bed ranch flat?

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good videos. one request, please point out the material of which you are talking about.

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[@GMS919]

Can you make a video about interior lighting? For example for room, living room, work, etc.. I don't know anything about architecture but I think a few basic tips will go a long way. Just as the 80/20 rule, that 80% of your results come from 20% of key tasks. What are those key lighting principles that I can apply to my home? :)

[@30by40]

you might check this video for some basics: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4e7oIKrr6x0Zqs it's an older one, so more image/talking vs. the newer vids which are (i think) more engaging... i have a new lighting video for the architecture short course coming up soon...

[@hikodzu]

Never thought lighting the trees would make it soo much comfy bcs it's not just a black shadow anymore

[@xavierking9721]

Big fan here, but I do want to make note of something. Rod cells are light responsive not color responsive. Blue tends to stand out more in darker conditions due to the Purkinje Effect in which red will "fade first" as night progresses, leaving green and blue to stand out more. Nonetheless, great work!

[@30by40]

Many thanks for the clarification +Thomas...!

[@ikeharris7646]

Down lighting ideas

[@christinetinewong3118]

I have a question, how did you do your pictures research for this video?

[@YourCritic]

Just to be a stickler, @ 4:35 you said "Degrees Kelvin", however, by convention it should just be "Kelvin" because it is an absolute temperature scale whereas the Celcius and Fahrenheit temperature scales are relatively defined by the freezing and boiling points of water, namely, 0 °C & 100 °C and 32 °F & 212 °F respectively at sealevel and standard atmospheric pressure.

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[@stargazing4865]

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Need a pool for cool exterior lighting effect!!

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I am watching this with a notepad in front of me, pen in hand, hard at work of taking notes.

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These are great photos but maybe concentrate on tract homes?

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[@medhan847]

Excellent presentation. I wish if you could speak less faster .

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Change the speed of reprodution of the video in the definitions to 0.75...

[@tfgglobal]

You talk about light pollution, but what about the significant pollution from outdoor fires or fireplaces indoors? They are responsible for over 25% of fine particulate matter that we breathe in. Still, I love the video and your channel.

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The narrator talks too fast

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Another useless video with no practical info at all... Just bla bla bla ... After this video we still have no idea how lumens should be a simple lighting-fixture to light a rock.

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