This month, we entered a world where architectural beauty is greatly enhanced with fixtures catering to building and façade applications! Building and façade lighting strategically enhances the architectural features of a structure, improves safety, and creates visual interest while combining practicality with artistic expression to boost aesthetics and operational efficiency. This type of lighting is essential for highlighting design elements, accentuating textures, and defining a building’s nighttime identity. By using fixtures such as sconces, downlights, wall washers, floodlights, or linear luminaires, designers can achieve various effects like grazing, silhouetting, and uplighting, emphasizing a structure’s height, shape, or specific features. Advanced control systems enhance functionality with programmable effects, color changes, and dimming options that adapt to the user’s needs. In addition, it can significantly encourage social interactions and engagement by creating inviting environments and improve wayfinding by providing clear visual cues that help people navigate and orient themselves in and around a space. Read on to learn how you can beautifully light up your outdoor space at nighttime!
SPI Lighting
The Pavo 2” Exterior is a simple yet sophisticated wall sconce that elegantly illuminates entrances or other outdoor spaces with pure lines of light. This IP66-rated luminaire is handcrafted in the USA and available in 1’ to 5’ lengths with various mounting options. It provides a functional light output of up to 750 lumens per foot and boasts a clean look with minimal bracketry and hardware.
Arcluce
The Ray180 Short is a robust and resistant recessed ceiling downlight ideal for decorative and functional lighting in environments needing maximum protection. This fixture is IP67-rated and comes in high-resistant die-cast aluminum and stainless steel trims. It features an elegant, compact design that integrates into any architectural setting and is versatile with various optics to achieve different light effects. This fixture is available with Bluetooth Low Energy technology.
WE-EF Lighting
The ETC130-GB LED in-grade is built for toughness and flexibility. It is an IP69K-rated ingress protection luminaire with the highest protection rating and has an IK10+ impact resistance rating. It features stainless steel construction. This luminaire has a gimbal-mounted design, 360° rotation, and 30° tilt. It has different light distributions and is suitable for walk-over and drive-over applications.
The Piece Hall, Blackledge, Halifax
UK Photographer: James Newton
Owner: The Piece Hall Trust
Architect: LDN Architects
Color Kinetics
The ColorGraze MX4 Powercore RGBW is a high-performance, IP66-rated exterior linear luminaire highlighting architectural features like surface textures, archways, etc. Ideal for wall-grazing and wall-washing, it’s built with durable extruded anodized aluminum housing and offers various luminaire lengths and beam angles to support many façade or surface illumination projects. Its low-profile housing, connectorized cabling, universal power input range, and direct line voltage operation ensure easy installation and operation.
Photo Credit: Swaminarayan Sanstha