Lighting installations as a way of forming the image of the city space

Abstract

The emergence and development of cities were accompanied by a long search for ways, methods, and means of creating a comfortable urban environment. One of the means of creating urban space is light, in particular, artificial light as the main tool in shaping the aesthetics of city architecture. Today, the light design of urban spaces ceases to be an auxiliary, formative field of activity in architecture and becomes a technique that enables the emergence of new cultural and aesthetic objects.

The purpose of the article is to identify the varieties and methods of using light in the form of light installations during the compositional form of the image of the urban space. With the help of light installations, spotlights, and backlights, the architecture of the building is strengthened, and the night view of the architectural composition is formed; light installations, sculptures, and decorations generate plasticity and dynamics of space. Techniques of architectural and decorative lighting: contour lighting (light graphics) - is used in the design of city buildings to enhance the silhouette perception of the stylistic features of the architecture. Illumination of individual fragments of buildings - used to emphasize the architectural details of architectural monuments. lighting from the inside - is used to achieve the effect of lighting the building "on the skylight".

In connection with the growing role of light installations in creating the image of a night city or the space in which they are realized, the features of the ideological content play an important role in their design. Therefore, according to these features, they can be conditionally divided into three groups: social (social-festive, social-problematic), conceptual, and commercial. The specificity of the artistic image and approaches to its formation make it possible to divide light installations into the following subspecies: anthropomorphic installation; zoomorphic installation; phytomorphic installation; an installation depicting natural phenomena; object-subject installation; abstract installation.