LINEAR LIGHTING in ARCHITECTURAL INTERIOR and EXTERIOR DESIGN: CURRENT TREND or A FUTURE?

Abstract

Contemporary LED technology in lighting industry allows today for almost endless design opportunities in architecture. Since 2000 the LED strip lighting became available on the lighting equipment market and slowly became affordable as the typical light source (bulbs) or linear light source (neon bulbs). Today it is implemented everywhere around the globe in exterior and interior design. Technological solutions are even more portable / easy-fixed and take less space and so linear lighting is not extraordinary or exceptional anymore. Although the linear lighting became very common since ca 10 years it have been used in interior or exterior design before but had some limits due to the technological reasons or have been implemented in another way. Design Lighting typology for interior and exterior design has been presented in the article along with several case studies that have been implemented. Limits and obstacles, advantages and disadvantages of the linear lighting have been discussed. Conclusions might be helpful for architects, interior designers, artists and light industry specialists. The author is a practicing architect with over ten years of experience in architectural and interior design with many implemented projects.