Light brings architecture to life. It is essential to bring out the textures, colours and forms of space. Light can be natural day light or artificial light. Natural light creates a certain mood that comes from the openness of sky and sun, or the clouds. Artificial lights switch on a mood; the way the light is designed or fitted into the architectural space.
The best architectural firms in India uses light intelligently to create the perfect spaces that people enjoying being part of and to give the buildings their recognition and shape, which is an extension of the architect’s creativity. To perceive and enjoy architecture, vision, is the single most important sense. Lighting adds to our vision and creates a picture of the design in front of our eyes that comes alive in shades and patterns taking a life of its own from the source of light.
Light is also the soul of architectural design. It can make people even happier. Lighting is also designed to make people comfortable and to spark off warm interaction between one another.
Lot of architecture has been created where it uses natural light to the maximum. People love natural light and prefer to be near a window.
The General Motors Technical Centre fascinates with architecture filled with an abundance of light. Interior offices and showrooms evoke the impression of a calm overcast sky for a human environment and beauty. The campus designed by Eero Saarinen represents an influential icon of mid -century design.
The best architects in India have realized the use of courtyard to use light efficiently. Sculptural elements can make courtyards into functional spaces like an informal dining area lit by the sky. To bring in the open sky, the very element that gives a courtyard its incredible dimension, architects use cut out motifs that act as a jaali (lattice) wall and creates patterns with the sunlight shining through, further heightening the experience of the court.
Here are some lighting tips from the best architects in Kolkata. To add more sizzle to a particular area of the house, hanging lights, are ideal. This lighting design can highlight things like desk in the study room. Over the dining table in the social space. Or the large landing of a staircase with a green corner featuring some plants and a statue. Choose lights as per your taste and décor.
To quote Le Corbusier an inspiration to the best architect in India: “Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of volumes brought together in light”.
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