Presentation delivered at DesignDC regarding the importance of lighting design.

1. DESIGNING FOR
PEOPLE WITH LIGHT
• Kelly Ennis, The Verve Partnership
• Patricia Bou, AIA, LEED AP Cannon Design
• Samantha LaFleur, LaFleur Associates

3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Understand how to use light
- to enforce a visual experience
- create visual and functional experiences for building occupants
- how light can be the tie that binds a space together
- how occupant-centric lighting design save energy
- how to communicate with your lighting practioner

4. [vurv] –noun
1.enthusiasm or vigor, as in literary or artistic work;
spirit: Her latest novel lacks verve.
2. vivaciousness; liveliness; animation: I like a
teacher with plenty of verve.
3. Archaic . talent.

5. LIGHT AS SHERPA

9. [sher-puh, shur-] –noun, plural –pas,
1.a member of a people of Tibetan stock living
in the Nepalese Himalayas, who often serve as
porters on mountain-climbing expeditions.
2. an expert chosen by a chief executive to
assist in preparations for a gov’t/exec meeting.
3. guide

29. TRANSFORM THE BUILDING - DAY TO NIGHT

30. TRANSFORM THE BUILDING - DAY TO NIGHT

31. DEFINE ENTRY

32. TRANSITIONS

33. TRANSITIONS

34. DEFINE CIRCULATION

35. DEFINE CIRCULATION

36. DEFINE CIRCULATION

37. DEFINE ZONES

38. ENHANCE CIRCULATION

39. FUNCTIONAL LIGHTING

40. SUPPORT A BRAND

41. SUPPORT A BRAND

42. SUPPORT A BRAND

43. LARGE VOLUME SPACES

44. LARGE VOLUME SPACES

45. LARGE VOLUME SPACES

46. BACKGROUND

47. CREATING PLACE

48. THE POWER OF DESIGN

49. CREATE EXPERIENCES
• Define visual extents &
occupant pathways
• Design 3 visual sequences
• Visual hierarchy: Choose one
big move

50. DEFINE VISUAL EXTENTS

51. CREATE EXPERIENCES
You control the progression of
geometries, textures, orientation
and brightness – which impacts
how quickly, loudly, happily your
occupants move through the
spaces.

52. LIGHT LEVEL PROGRESSION

53. DESIGN SEQUENCE – DAYTIME SUNNY

54. DESIGN SEQUENCE – DAYTIME CLOUDY

55. DESIGN SEQUENCE – NIGHTTIME

56. VISUAL HIERARCHY

57. LAYER UP FROM ZERO
• What if there was no
electric light?
• Glazed apertures = light
fixture
• Use additive not
subtractive process

58. LIGHT WHERE ITS NEEDED

59. DESIGNING FOR
PEOPLE WITH LIGHT
• Kelly Ennis, The Verve Partnership
• Patricia Bou, AIA, LEED AP, Cannon Design
• Samantha LaFleur, LaFleur Associates