How to light up your garden

To understand the basic principles of exterior lighting design. Developing a lighting scheme into a detailed lighting plan

	SUITABILITY Suitable for those with some understanding of design principles, but without detailed knowledge of lighting. Suitable for all students and designers interested in landscape lighting DURATION One day LOCATION Hampton Court Palace

Lighting Principles

Dealing with the basic principles of lighting design, the day will encourage the individual to think about lighting at the outset of a project rather than as an addition to a scheme.

There will be studio demonstrations where the different effects will be shown from working samples within the classroom and an exciting, inspirational lecture will be given showing the different ways the professional lighting designer achieves these effects.

In addition, a practical studio session will cover the principle types of lamps, fittings, and controls available to the designer.

• Basic Principles of Lighting Design
• Overview of Lamps (including Colour Temperature and Rendition, Beam Widths and Lamp Life)
• Controlling your exterior space

Lighting Schemes & Plans

We will examine how to put together a lighting plan, enabling the designer to specify the exact position of each chosen fitting to create the desired effect. The day will include an exercise to design a lighting scheme for a small garden and look at the finished project through photographs.

• How to develop a lighting scheme
• What fittings to use
• Where to place the fittings
• Building up the circuits and layering of light
• Lighting specification and circuit schedule