Lighting garden buildings. Options and Lighting Principles

Outdoor illumination of country buildings is used not only in practical, but also in aesthetic purposes. All sorts of highlighting, lamps and lanterns can lend plants, it is advantageous to emphasize the architectural solutions, to highlight the tracks by creating the original style of the railway area. In addition, the owner can be safe, since such an illumination serves as a barrier for unwanted penetration of intruders.

Light decoration of garden landscape

Perfect option for lighting buildings – this is the use of a single style of all types of backlight, which were selected for the decorative composition. Holding harmony, as a result you will get neat and aesthetic illumination, decorating the design of the territory. Depending on the functional features, there are two types of architectural illumination - landscape and facade.

Facade lighting

This type of illumination is an architectural lighting of buildings that allows you to select certain fragments of buildings, parties or inputs. There are several methods that are designed to organize lighting at the cottage:

• local;
• contour;
• foul
• dynamic;
• background;
• light facades;
• combined.

Each of the presented types of facade illumination has its own characteristics and a specific functional load. Consider in more detail the main differences between the concepts presented.

1. Pulmonary architectural illumination implies the use of special searchlights that emit a powerful light stream at a wide angle. This allows devices to illuminate the whole building. This type of illumination is useful to ensure the safety of the structure.
2. The contour lighting of the facade is provided by the installation of LED lamps, a special tape or a diode tube. These elements are laid along the faces on the protruding surfaces of the structure. This type of illumination is used as decorative design.
3. Local illumination is carried out due to spotlights with low power or lamps with a narrow angle of light scattering. The purpose of the installation is underscounted by separate fragments of the building: balconies, eaves, window openings, arches, etc.
4. Background architectural lighting implies the installation of lighting devices so that they can only highlight the background, on which the buildings are secreted by a darkened silhouette.
5. Dynamic illumination is capable of creating an original illumination colorwoman, playing various shades, lighting and brightness intervals. It is used exclusively in decorative purposes.
6. Reception of light facades is used to illuminate glass buildings. It implies the installation of the necessary equipment behind the glass, directing the rays to the transparent surface. Due to such a technique, you can create all sorts of light effects and decorate the greenhouses.
7. Combined illumination can combine the various techniques of the above lighting types, creating the original style of the territory.

Landscape lighting

This type of external lighting provides decorative illumination of the landscape composition of the site. The most common outdoor illumination option for donated:

• installation of lighting supports;
• illumination with decorative lamps;
• installation of lamps to the foundation;
• installation of ground lamps.

The ability to arrange and emphasize the garden culture by light stream - the last fashion in landscape design, which in addition to decorative value also has a practical orientation. Thus, the owner of the garden plot can protect its territory from plant damage to animals and people in the dark.

Principles of functional lighting

From the point of view of the comfort and reliability of the illumination, several factors must be taken into account. The main criteria include: the correct placement of the lamps for the illumination of cottages , their field of exposure, the ability to install automated systems, conducting territorial tracks, etc. Consider two fundamental principles for ensuring comfortable coverage of country buildings.

Installing an automatic control system

This principle implies the distribution of the entire lighting device system into separate functional sections. These actions allow you to expand the circle of illuminating control levers, providing the ability to control all devices from any room, setting the timer to turn on, turning off and change the backlight modes. The owner will be able to control both the full chain of lighting equipment and its specific groups, highlighting only tracks, garden, balconies, facade, etc. specified parameters as desired.

Ensuring energy saving system

This principle can be attributed to:

• the ability to change the level and intensity of the illumination of the facade depending on natural lighting;
• the change of the functional mode in those zones where the movement is fixed;
• switching in automatic backlight mode depending on the pore threshold or time of day.

In addition to the above features and principles of illumination of external facades, it should also be paid to such criteria as:

• the correctness of the design solution of the backlight;
• the level of reliability of operation;
• functional load;
• the aesthetic value of the composition.

All of these features will help choose the necessary type of lighting device, with precise power characteristics, the possibility of supplying accompanying communication to save on the cost and time of the site owner.

Security Guarantee

One of the functional criteria for illumination of country buildings is to ensure the safety and integrity of possessions. The use of searchlight lamps of medium and high power will allow to highlight:

• remote areas of the territory;
• inputs in the construction;
• gaming zones;
• tracks, etc.

In addition, the architectural illumination of the building creates the visibility of the presence of the owners, even if the room is empty. Thus, the owner can protect his plot, while simultaneously providing comfort and aesthetic attractiveness of estates.

Requirements for installation of garden lighting

In order to construct and run an effective construction system of buildings, it is necessary to adhere to a specific sequence of actions:

1. It should be paramount to design a detailed plan for the location of the country buildings and the subordinate communications.
2. Determine in which segments of the garden territory it is planned to establish lighting. The location of the searchlight will be directly dependent on the functional purpose.
3. Then decide how the electrical connection of the instruments will occur, set the place where the sensors and switches will be.
4. Based on the initial plan, it is necessary to prepare an electrical circuit. Use millimeter paper where you can apply the required points on 1: 100 scale. On the ground, these proportions will be equal to 1 cm: 1m.
5. After creating a plan, accounting for all features and requirements, you can start the installation of the lighting system. It should be remembered about fire safety measures.

Important! In the process of drawing up the scheme, it is necessary to take into account the features of the equipment used at the receiving area: types of switches, lamps, motion sensors, etc.

Outdoor lighting guide can be seen below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003dkhjk_omfdk4

Types of lighting devices

1. Bollards - the most common lighting posts for giving . They are small designs up to 1 m high, which can be used both for general lighting and local backlight of the garden segments: Alpine slides, tracks, flower beds, etc. due to the diversity of design variations and forms, such lanterns were widely distributed among the owners of cottages and cottages.
2. Floodlights are powerful lighting units that are used for zonal illumination: a porch, a household building, veranda, yard, pool, or a playground.
3. Spherical lanterns - small-sized devices having an opaque flask. Used for local lighting of buildings and inputs.
4. Lights Solar - practical lighting design, which does not need to be connected to the mains. It is enough to fix in the soil, and provide energy to the sun's rays. Due to the low power such devices are used for lighting tracks beds or stages.

Among the most well-known manufacturers of lighting devices for the villa lighting, can be identified as follows:

• EGLO;
• PRC;
• VISTOSI;
• IDEA LUX;
• Wunderlicht;
• MASSIVE;
• KANLUX;
• MW light;
• PHILIPS.

Types of lamps for street lighting

To ensure a reliable and multifunctional lighting dachas, you can use several types of lamps. Consider the most appropriate options:

1. Halogen lamp - This type of design provides a smooth, white light, with a good measure of the intensity and luminosity. In addition, they have a long life - up to 4000 hours. Among the most popular brands can be identified as follows:

• POLAND;
• Eurolamp;
• Philips.

2. Bulb - less common type of device which provides a weak stream of light with yellowish tinge. Demand for illumination of underutilized buildings. The most popular manufacturers:

• osram;
• philips;
• LUMEN.

3. LED lamp - the best option for outdoor illumination. Due to the small size, reliability, operation duration and the diversity of successfully fit into any landscape. Among the most well-known manufacturers are:

• UltraLight;
• DELUX.

There are other variations in outdoor illumination lamp such as metal halide, mercury and sodium lamps. However, due to the characteristics of their operation, you must carefully consider their relevance in a holiday lighting.

Examples of works on outer lighting portion can be seen on the fragment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003dU92_k8iK21g