About the authors
| First name, Middle name, Last name, Scientific degree, Scientific rank, Current position. Full and brief name of the organization, The organization address. | Aleksey I. Ivantsov, candidate of technical sciences, associate professor, Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering, Kazan, Russian Federation E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ,ORCID:0000-0001-6047-3123 Artyom S. Petrov, candidate of technical sciences, associate professor, Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering, Kazan, Russian Federation E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ,ORCID:0000-0001-6643-9110 Anna A. Makarova, architect, Architectural bureau AB1, LLC, Kazan, Russia E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
| Title of the article | Cartograms of vertical illumination in the practice of architectural design on the example of media facades |
| Abstract. | Problem statement. The role of night artificial lighting in cities is increasing. Irrational use of architectural lighting, media facades and other lighting elements leads to negative consequences: increased light pollution, deterioration of living conditions near lighting objects, disruption of human biorhythms. In the absence of clear regulatory documents on their brightness and overillumination, there is a need for a detailed study of their impact on vertical illumination in the surrounding buildings at the design stage. One way to solve the problem may be to use vertical illumination cartograms, but the calculation of vertical illumination levels in the urban environment requires scientific development and testing by natural measurements. The purpose of the work is to establish a pattern between vertical illumination in urban development created by a media facade and its brightness characteristics based on natural measurements in the dark time of day. The tasks of the study are: – to make full-scale measurements of vertical illumination near installed media facades at night; – build cartograms of the vertical illumination distribution when the brightness of the glow changes, as well as the type of filling in the information field of the media facade; – compare the measured and normalized values of vertical illumination. Results. The cartograms of vertical illumination distribution in the dark time of day created by media facades were obtained with changes in the brightness of the glow, as well as the type of filling of the information field of the media facade. Conclusions. The need for a standard method for constructing cartograms of vertical illumination in urban development at the design stage is shown, which will facilitate the implementation of the SP and SanPiN standards when designing outdoor artificial lighting. |
| Keywords. | artificial lighting, architectural lighting, media facade, vertical illuminance, light pollution, brightness |
| For citations: | Ivantsov A.I., Petrov A.S., Makarova A.A. Cartograms of vertical illumination in the practice of architectural design on the example of media facades // News of KSUAE, 2025, № 4 (74), p. 204-216, DOI: 10.48612/NewsKSUAE/74.18, EDN: SJXEVA |
