BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – HOME DESIGNING BACKGROUND – UNIQUE HOME DESIGNING ARTICLES
HOME DESIGN SAFETY - LIGHTING
By Before The Architect Copyright 2007-2009 Before The Architect
To me, it's as though I'm near harbor in the fog and storm at near-night, can hear the lighthouse horn, and see the beacon's glow. I know first-hand that it ain't over when it's over. Before The Architect
INTRODUCTION TO LIGHTING SAFETY
Comment: Note well that there are entries herein under that reside here only, and others that repeat items otherwise herewith because the AG thinks they’re worth repeating.
Home safety lighting design is integral to home design safety. Elsewhere in this website, the author addresses home lighting design as no other in the home designing business far as he can tell, noting that this home designer's notion of lighting design actively involves both the commonly, albeit shallowly considered (by others) nightlighting, but also the much less [read: virtually, nonexistent] daylighting . . .
Wiring, Lighting Plans - This is the plan set representation of both electrical planning and lighting planning. Please note well that this document is necessarily repeated in the electrical section hereunder.
Daylighting Schedule - Discourse and direction on a virtually unattended subject in both the literature and the practice of home lighting - how sunlight can affect home design.
Daylighting Study - Actual excerpts from an actual home plan set, representing Before The Architect's home lighting design system, actually.
Light Flutter - Light flutter comes from ceiling fan blades interrupting a view of light rays – natural or mechanical source. This is about mechanical source interruption and its avoidance by interior lighting home designing. Nothing like it in print, in this home designer's opinion. Nothing.
Lighting Design: 1 - The Basic of home interior lighting home design for aging eyes. A method of analysis and specification to interior lighting home design for aging eyes is developed and applied, aiming to be easily done and easily understood by lighting pros to work with in luminaires selection in interior home decoration.
Lighting Design: 2 - The Math of home interior lighting design for aging eyes. A method of analysis and specification to interior lighting home design for aging eyes is developed and applied, aiming to be easily done and easily understood by lighting pros to work with in luminaires selection in interior decoration.
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Additionally, certain matters of home design lighting safety relating to home designing are worthy of individual mention, including but not necessarily limited to . . .
1) No exterior light source shall shine a sight-obstructing glare at an inhabitable structure
2) All passages to a room or hall shall have reasonable access to lighting device control of at least 1 shared lighting outlet in that room or hall
3) In a room with a door lock, bolt, latch, or similar of any sort, a lighting switch control for at least 1 lighting fixture rated 120V in that room shall be placed on the locked, or interior, side of passage
4) A street address house number shall be displayed such that it is clearly visible and identifiable from the street from which vehicle access to that house can be made
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