Urban Lighting Design: Contemporary Vision for Nocturnal Environments

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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:

1. Internal design staff

2. Team electrical engineer

3. Manufacture representatives

4. 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

1. Site visit

2. Existing conditions report

3. NightSeeing Program: Community and stakeholder interaction

4. Recommendations – night and light principles

Design Stage 1 – Schematic

1. Design workshop guidance

2. Including precedents, examples

3. Relevant case studies

4. Concept/Schematic Basis of Design consisting of:

5. Sketches

6. Rendered site plan

7. Rendered design for specifics – section/elevation as needed

8. Fixture Families

Design Stage 2 – Design Development through Construction Documentation

1. Review, comment, answer questions throughout final design process

Design Stage 3 – On-site commissioning 

1. Supervise aim and adjust

2. Supervise level setting and states (control system)

Leni Schwendinger Light Projects: Transit                                                         

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