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Feast your eyes, intellect and imagination on images and text about the possibilities of light and night.
You are welcomed to innovate with Leni – Urbanist | Designer | Artist
The hours from dusk to dawn, in public space, deserve a special urban planning and design approach. During the virus pandemic, with focus on essential labor — medical, transit, cleaning, call centers, to name a few — cities’ human, humming engine, nighttime design is critical.
However, for public space design teams, urban lighting design is seldom listed as a key service with line-item fee budgets. Therefore primes consult with fixture representatives and engineers rather than peer designers.
Welcome to my economic program especially to enhance structure, infrastructure and site design: Pre-design and Design – Stage 1. Full service concept to construction administration is also available, see Design – Stages 2 and 3.
Leni Schwendinger Light Projects: Features – Public Art
As a sole-proprietor, woman-owned enterprise (WBE), with over 20-years of experience, Leni Schwendinger Light Projects offers upper-level illumination design services to ensure quality nighttime experiences for end users through guidance, collaboration and advisement for landscape architecture and urban design clients.
Leni Schwendinger Light Projects: Parks and Waterfronts
In-depth technical assistance is available as needed. Design Development (Stage 2) and CD phase (Stage 3) options include coordinated hand-off to the prime’s choice:
Internal design staff
Team electrical engineer
Manufacture representatives
Leni Schwendinger Light Projects’ partner technical team
Key services
– Existing conditions – Community engagement if needed – Develop concepts to match architectural design themes – Basis of Design Report (Schematic) – Review and Comment (Final Design) – Commissioning
Pre-design
Site visit
Existing conditions report
NightSeeing Program: Community and stakeholder interaction
Recommendations – night and light principles
Design Stage 1 – Schematic
Design workshop guidance
Including precedents, examples
Relevant case studies
Concept/Schematic Basis of Design consisting of:
Sketches
Rendered site plan
Rendered design for specifics – section/elevation as needed
Fixture Families
Design Stage 2 – Design Development through Construction Documentation
Review, comment, answer questions throughout final design process
Design Stage 3 – On-site commissioning
Supervise aim and adjust
Supervise level setting and states (control system)
Leni Schwendinger Light Projects: Transit
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