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路易•克莱尔 《灯光与设计》 照明顾问
Louis Clair Lighting Consultant for Luce e Design
灯光设计师的任务是设计出“优秀的灯光”，这意味着灯光设计不仅要体现出惊人的效果，同时要“使用得当”。使用得当是说在合适的地方使用低成本、节能的、合适的灯光。因此，我们的责任不能仅仅停留在室外“夜景照明”，同时应该注重经济实用和维护便捷。
避免眩光和浪费能源是灯光设计师的使命，遗憾的是有时客户对这些并不是很了解，他们常常选择收费便宜的设计师设计省钱的项目，而忽略整个项目在使用和环境方面的制约。新的绿色照明设计的应用能够帮助设计师们更好的理解其任务和承担的责任，从而设计出高质量的灯光。这对设计师自身而言，是件很好的事情。
目前，中国存在过度照明的现象，而且比其他国家表现的更为明显。每个人都想要获得比别人更亮的灯光，这样的要求只能导致一种结果，那就是使用越来越多的灯光，越来越亮。在市中心使用耀眼的灯饰和明亮的灯牌，驱走黑暗，橙色灯光笼罩整个夜空，甚至遮住了星星。多亏节能环保的政策的出台，全球的人们开始了解适度的灯光并且接受对亮光和环境污染的批评。
那么，灯光设计的主角——设计师，如何承担起他们的责任，以避免过度照明愈演愈烈呢？在中国，随着绿色低碳的倡导，设计师们被要求提供设计图表和指导意见，从而确保立面的合理照明。同时设计师也主动地采用调光控制系统，控制城镇的亮度，从而满足绿色节能的“适度照明”。专业照明设计师应该从完成项目直到安装完成，一直对自己的设计负责，从而达到节能与美学的结合。
A lighting designer’s task is to design “good lighting. “Good lighting” not only refers to being “amazing,” but “right” too. Right means the right light at the right place with the right energy and for the right costs.
Our responsibilities don’t stop at the “night image” of evening openings, but cover economic usage and easy maintenance. Naturally, our professional duty is to avoid “glare and wasting energy.” The meaning of these constraints were not clear to our customers and sometimes they choose cheaper designers and projects, without taking into account the whole scope of work needed through full control of usages and environmental constraints. In fact, the new green application of lighting design helps us to better understand our work and responsibilities for better quality lighting. It has been a very good thing for our profession.
In China there are inflationary uses of light, due to a greater ”appetite” compared to other countries, and until the last 2 years every body wanted to be ”more visible” than his neighbor. This natural demand had just one answer, put more and more light to get brighter illuminations and luminous signs in the middle of shining towns, chasing out the darkness of the night, covering the environment with a huge orange bubble without a visible star. Thanks to energy saving and environmental preservation policies, people all over the world are starting to learn what “good lighting” is and are accepting to “read and judge” heavy illuminations and environmental damages.
How do designers play their roles to avoid the over inflationary uses of lighting? In China, there are now “green and low carbon” towns asking designers for lighting charts and guidance to maintain the facades of lighting designs to reasonable limits. The second step will be to dim the existing illuminations, in China especially. Because of public judgments, towns will have to control illuminations, first with just rules about “good lighting” as well as saving energy and the environment. Employ free independent professional lighting designers, letting them achieve their full scope of work until acceptance of the installation, making them responsible for their designs in order to achieve the right combination between esthetics and energy saving.
