Figure: The glare that may be caused by office lighting can affect work efficiency and lead to visual fatigue.

What kind of office lighting is scientific? Today, take you to explore the secrets of comfortable office lighting space.

The office is a place where the staff is engaged in close-range visual operations for a long time. It takes a long time to provide a simple and bright lighting environment for employees to meet the needs of staff, communication, thinking, meetings, etc. The unity and comfort between the regions, as well as the ability to spread a good image to visitors through the office space. Therefore, the office decoration environment should have higher lighting requirements. A good office lighting environment can give people a feeling of openness and happiness, which is conducive to people's work efficiency and create more benefits for enterprises.

The light and shadow and structure sense displayed by the space is a perspective that is familiar with each other. The temperament of the office space represents the temperament of the enterprise, and it is known that it is eight or nine points.

The office lighting field is very diverse, with open large offices, cubicle offices, corridors and passage areas, reception rooms, etc. How are the lights in these areas arranged? Let's take a look at three common office lighting methods.

Three common office lighting methods

In the case of artificial lighting, there are three common types of office lighting: general lighting (partitional general lighting), local lighting, and hybrid lighting.

General lighting, also known as global illumination, is a lighting method that takes care of the entire surface without considering special local needs (in order to improve the illumination of a specific work area, partitioned general lighting is often used). This can be done in general meeting rooms, reception rooms and offices without special lighting requirements.

Figure: general lighting general lighting

Partial illumination refers to the illumination used to increase the brightness of a given location. Local lighting is often necessary in offices that require sophisticated operations such as writing and calculations.

Figure: Local lighting Local lighting

Hybrid illumination refers to the illumination method used when the illumination on the work surface needs to be composed of general illumination and local illumination. It is often used when the illumination requirements are different or the office points that require the same illumination are not concentrated.

Figure: Mixed lighting Mixed lighting

Main area functions of the office and common lighting techniques

As the window of the enterprise, the front desk not only displays the strength of the enterprise, but also highlights the cultural connotation of the enterprise itself. It is necessary to formulate corresponding lighting methods based on the overall positioning and decoration characteristics of the company. The overall brightness of the lighting is very high. The downlight can be used as the basic lighting. At the same time, the inverted image spotlight or the track light can be used to focus on the background image wall to achieve the effect of highlighting the corporate image and displaying the strength of the enterprise.

Figure: Example of common lighting methods at the front desk

Open office is the largest proportion of the current office space, covering all functional departments of the company, including computer operations, writing, telephone communication, thinking, work exchange, meetings and other office activities. In lighting, the above office behavior should be combined with the principle of uniformity and comfort. Usually, the uniform spacing of the lighting method is adopted, and the corresponding lighting is used in combination with the ground function area. The work area area uses a grille light panel to even out the work space and reduce glare. The downlight is illuminated in the collective office access area to supplement the channel with light.

Figure: Example of common lighting techniques in a large office

Single-person offices are generally used by a certain level of leadership, including regular work and meeting, as well as small training and meetings. Lighting should be based on functionality and combined with space to add to the atmosphere. Usually, the work area can be a diffuse grille or an anti-glare series downlight. At the same time, anti-glare ceiling light can be used to strengthen the facade lighting of the wall to improve comfort and create an excellent office environment.

Figure: Example of a common lighting method for a single office

The reception room serves as a venue for meeting partners and customers, creating an atmosphere that is comfortable, relaxed, cozy and friendly. The lighting should highlight the friendly expression of the negotiator, and it is possible to use a downlight with better color rendering, which is suitable for soft brightness. At the same time pay attention to the performance of the facade corporate culture or posters, you can use adjustable angle lamps to improve the brightness of the wall facade.

Figure: Example of common lighting techniques in the reception room

The conference room is the place for the company's major decision-making council, including conferences, training, negotiation, video observation, and meeting guests. Lighting should be used in conjunction with different purposes, combined with intelligent control for simple switching or mode selection to achieve different functional scene lighting. Requirements. Regardless of the length of the meeting, the number of participants, whether it is a one-way report meeting in the conference hall or a round-table communication meeting in the small and medium-sized conference room, the purpose of the conference room lighting is to stimulate the participants' imagination and encourage them to communicate with each other.

At the same time, the conveyance of facial expressions of participants is also the most important task in conference room lighting. Lighting should avoid inappropriate shadows and contrasts. The wall façade can be wall-washed with spotlights to provide a fun ambient light for a monotonous long-term meeting environment. In combination with the ceiling decoration structure, a suspension lamp or a concealed lamp can be used to form the lamp belt. The small meeting room should strengthen the light and shadow effect, avoid the oppressive feeling brought by the small space, and use the indirect lighting fixtures that can emit light from above and below to evenly illuminate the ceiling and the wall.

Figure: Example of common lighting techniques for conference rooms

The public passage serves as a public area connecting various departments, and its own lighting requirements are not high enough to satisfy functional lighting. Generally, depending on the structure and height of the ceiling, the hidden lighting or the downlight, the light panel and the like are used.

Figure: Example of common lighting methods for public channels

In addition to the above common lighting techniques, depending on the function and style of the office, the lighting design is more and more comfortable, decorative and interesting while meeting the basic lighting functions. In actual work, it should be based on specific projects. Flexible use of different types of lighting methods and luminaires to achieve a humanized lighting effect.