Lighting! Blog Post 004

Last Friday Scott Richardson came to speak with us about lighting and give us tips on how to improve the lighting within our designed IOB space.  One thing concerning lighting with our project is that every eye, even the different types of blindnesses experience lighting different.  Older eyes let less light in and one way he talked about making it a happy medium with younger eyes and older eyes in by reducing glare thoughout the space. His best suggestion for this was to decrease the difference between inside and outside light by making then flow together so it is easier for the eye to adjust. When dealing with the different types of blindness and how they experience light he suggested doing studies such as coverning up certian blind spots and walking through spaces with different lighting experience.  I thought that this would be really helpful for us.  He really liked how our design challanged the eye and thought that through the use of light we could enhance that in our project.  He suggested playing with different lighted planes in out textures and also maybe luminating behind some of the triangles. We discussed how floresent is already in the space and he senced our misconceptions about the harsh feeling floresents give most people.  He informed us that there are different types of floresent and that we should play around with less harsh types.  I think that Scott was very informative and the IOB group plans to meet again with him once we are more developed in our lighting stage of the project.