CCOG for ID 236 Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- ID 236
- Course Title:
- Lighting Design
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture Hours:
- 30
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Covers interior lighting as it relates to residential interiors. Includes terminology, lamps, fixtures, cost factors, developing lighting plans, design techniques and energy saving strategies. Prerequisites: ID 100, ID 125, ID 131, and (WR 115 and RD 115) or IRW 115 and MTH 20 or equivalent placement.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of this course students should be able to:
- Identify the advantages and disadvantages of each of the major lamp categories, and their use in residential interiors.
- Demonstrate a professional level knowledge of lamp selection, lighting techniques and daylighting strategies to create energy saving lighting schemes for residential interiors.
- Explain the role lighting plays in creating a supportive environment for various tasks.
- Explain lighting control selections based on visual comfort, aesthetic considerations and energy saving criteria of lamps.
Course Activities and Design
This course will be presented by means of lecture, discussion, field trips, and visuals. The student's grade will be determined by a combination of class assignments, testing, and class participation.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Skills:
- The student will develop the following skills through this course:
- Improve drafting and communication skills
- Gain experience in developing solutions to a variety of lighting design problems
- Utilize beam spread charts to select lamps.
- Create an accurately drawn lighting plan that demonstrates an understanding of the application of a variety of lighting techniques to meet function and design criteria.
- Utilize appropriate drafting symbols to convey lighting design solutions.
- Create a lighting fixture schedule.
The following Themes, Issues, and Concepts will have increased meaning to the student as a result of this course:
Themes
- Importance of lighting in interior design
- Role of lighting in energy consumption and energy savings
Issues
- Lamp selection
- Design strategies
Concepts
- Lighting plans
- Beam spread charts
- Lamps
- Fixtures
- Optical control
- Lighting design techniques
- Electrical requirements
Related Instruction
Computation
Hours: 25- Understand the use of appropriate lamps and lighting techniques as an energy saving tool.
- Utilize beam spread charts to select lamps.
- Create an accurately drawn lighting plan that demonstrates an understanding of the application of a variety of lighting techniques to meet function and design criteria.
- Understand the importance of optical control in the selection of lamps, fixtures, and lighting techniques.
- Students construct drafted documents throughout the term which require architectural drafting standards and dimensioning with scale integers.
- Students calculate energy use with watts per square foot lighting levels using specific formulas in the class.
- Students calculate for candlepower strength using specific formulas for directional lighting.
- Calculation exercises are done as in-class work, project requirements and on exams.
Communication
Hours: 15- Identify the advantages and disadvantages of each of the major lamp categories, and their use in residential interiors.
- Create an accurately drawn lighting plan that demonstrates an understanding of the application of a variety of lighting techniques to meet function and design criteria.
- Utilize appropriate drafting symbols to convey lighting design solutions.
- Understand the role of lighting in the performance of tasks, and the successful visual enhancement of interiors.
- Students are required to communicate their design solutions in casual and formal critiques.
- Visual communication involves architectural drawings, diagrams and concept development.
- Students must explain verbally their "design/ problem solving" efforts.
Human Relations
Hours: 20- Identify the advantages and disadvantages of each of the major lamp categories, and their use in residential interiors.
- Create an accurately drawn lighting plan that demonstrates an understanding of the application of a variety of lighting techniques to meet function and design criteria.
- Understand the role of lighting in the performance of tasks, and the successful visual enhancement of interiors.
- Students are required to demonstrate knowledge of user needs and profiles.
- Students study the particular needs of older users and diminished vision.
- Students must comprehend the impact of their lighting design on the health, safety and welfare of the users (clients).