Ten Misunderstandings in the Development of Urban Lighting Projects

    In the past ten years, urban lighting has played an important role in beautifying and lighting the city. Neon lamp installation, acrylic production, LED digital tube project, etc. have gradually become an important part of urban civilization, and it is also a means of modern city construction and display its image. Judging from the current situation of domestic urban lighting, great progress has been made in the past ten years, but there are also some problems, and some problems are still quite serious.

Misunderstanding 1: Sacrifice the old city

In the conflict between the protection of ancient buildings and the development of urban lighting projects, the former is often the sacrifice. The destruction of the old city has become a short-sighted urban behavior by Chinese city builders in the last century.

Typical: The ancient city of Suzhou was damaged by the highway passing through the city. The city was not equipped with proper lighting, which made it impossible to be included in the World Cultural Heritage List. Only Suzhou gardens were selected.

Misunderstanding 2: Clone City

As long as you pay attention, you will find that Chinese cities are more and more alike: the same signage road lighting, the style is displayed like a chain store; the same garden lighting; the same floodlighting, crowding all the high-rise buildings and commercial streets in the busy city. The same model brings about the effects of neutrality, foreignness, modernity, and ancient times.

Typical: The world famous architect said that Chang'an Street is very ugly, without the characteristics of ancient Chinese capital, and the style is not uniform. If you don't look at Tiananmen Square, you don't know which city street it is!

Misunderstanding three, "sign" fanaticism

　　 The most recent, high-tech and modern buildings are the landmarks of the city, which is a major misunderstanding of the landmark buildings of Chinese cities. It is a pity that most of them cannot be the carriers of their historical culture. In other words, it eliminates the inherent culture of the city and replaces it with new buildings. After the new buildings, there are newer ones, larger in scale, higher floors, and more expensive, so iconic buildings are always changing. Therefore, the façade lighting also competes for glory, making the building not new and representative.

Typical: The Oriental Pearl TV Tower is far less representative than the old Shanghai Railway Station and is known to the world. It is a pity that a TV tower without any cultural heritage is used as an advertisement for Shanghai.

Misunderstanding 4: Not good at exquisiteness

Urban lighting designers don't like "small things" with small projects and small areas. They are only interested in large buildings with a cost of tens of millions of dollars, because the income is generous. They are not good at things like the Arc de Triomphe, the Parthenon, Wright’s Flowing Water Villa, and so on. They don't care how rough the lighting design is, they just want to look tall, magnificent, and grand.

Typical: The lighting of Beijing Oriental Plaza is abruptly on Chang'an Avenue, which is not in harmony with the Wangfujing culture nearby.

Misunderstanding 5. Blind internationalization

　　 uses "unconventional, pretentious, grandstanding, flashy" to describe the blind international urban lighting style that is popular nowadays. It is not too much. According to statistics, nearly 100 cities across the country have chanted the slogan of establishing an international metropolis. In fact, an international metropolis needs a lot of living facilities and related lighting to achieve it.

Typical: Most of the lighting arranged in the residential area only pays attention to the appearance, and the actual use is not perfect. The lighting in the commercial area has the phenomenon of pursuit of brightness and light pollution.

Misunderstanding 6: Landscape architecture is absent in Chinese architecture

Landscape architecture, architecture, and urban planning are indispensable in the architectural world. The work of integrating resource development, environmental protection, pollution prevention, etc. with public behavior, environmental image, and spiritual civilization in the urban human settlement environment It is done. Therefore, the absence of landscape architecture in the Chinese architectural world makes it difficult to improve the current situation of urban lighting in China.

Typical: Cement forest stands everywhere, the comprehensive design level is poor, and the overall planning and construction cannot be done, let alone the landscape lighting design.

Misunderstanding 7, unique limelight

　　 Lighting design has always been a kind of overall harmony. Today's urban lighting in China only considers how individuals can win by surprise. The lighting that constitutes the city as a whole is like a fashion show, each showing its magical powers.

　　Typical: What other city squares and urban sculpture lighting can represent the style of the city, and can establish its own unique style of the city?

Misunderstanding 8: Ignore the urban landscape

In the current situation where the roads in the central area of the city are squeezed and narrowed by buildings, coupled with the fact that there are many people and vehicles, and the division of urban functional areas is not clear, urban lighting is only blindly planned and constructed around the city center. There is no other landscape to see outside.

Misunderstanding 9, "fake" landscape is in power

　　 In recent years, there has been a boom in man-made landscapes throughout the country. Antique buildings have been heavily built in various places, at the expense of destroying the urban ecology. The prevalence of such "fake" landscapes has also led to the rise of "fake lighting".

Typical: There is such a large temple in the hinterland of Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area, and the lighting is incompatible with the green mountains and green waters.

Misunderstanding ten, face engineering

The developer built an "urban plaza" with a concrete forest and a "garden villa" without a garden. Planting grass but not trees is a short, flat and quick "face project", which is just piling up the so-called characteristic lighting of the community, which does not meet the requirements of human settlements at all.

　　Typical: Use plastic tree lights instead of greening.