Lighting is a key factor in dictating the appearance, ambience and functionality of a building and its surrounding landscape. An integral part of the architecture, it needs to satisfy the client’s aspirations and the designer’s vision, but also deliver the appropriate technical performance for the space.
Buro Happold’s specialist lighting team, Happold Lighting, provides a complete lighting design service, from initial concept design to final commissioning, in which creative thinking is balanced with a solid understanding of technical design principles and analysis.
Changing regulations, new materials and technologies and more intricate building forms are just some of the challenges we address. By being involved from the outset, we can inform and influence the design to ensure it fulfils the project’s specific lighting objectives.
We use a range of advanced modelling techniques to demonstrate lighting ideas to clients and end users. Because natural lighting can have bottom line benefits, not just in terms of energy savings but also from productivity and health gains, we examine in detail what impact elements such as the facade will have on lighting levels.
Happold Lighting believes that light should create spaces which enhance the visual perception of people, their actions and their expressions. These spaces should also evoke emotions and bring out the most appealing form and colour of architectural features and objects such as sculptures and paintings.
Our group was established within Buro Happold to provide a dedicated lighting design consultancy for projects that require specialised lighting strategies. Employing lighting designers, lighting engineers and architects, Happold Lighting is able to offer an integrated service that delivers the most effective, appropriate and creative lighting solutions across a wide range of international projects.