What Is Garage?
The garage is a similar to warehouse where a building or part of a building that vehicles are kept when not use or a school where vehicles are repaired. The garage is not only just a place for vehicles, but also can serve as a workshop, hobby center, an area for workbenches, garage cabinets and utility carts, and occasionally a place to store off-season items, bulky equipment or other pieces that create clutter. For the various usage of the garage, so a proper lighting design for the garage system and organization is important. A well and birght type of lighting can help increase productivity by making things visible. But a poorly illuminated garage can be a barrier in the workflow. Therefore, installing a good form of LED lights is necessary for the car parking, entrance of garage and export of garage, as well as the other storage or working areas.
Lighting Design Of Garage
No matter which garage place of the residential quarter, commercial mall, office building, repair house, etc. There always have 3 major forms are the ambient lighting, task lighting, and accent lighting. All three major form design lighting fixtures can make the garage looks more dynamic, brightly visible, and appealing.
Ambinet fixtures: Ambinet lighting is a kind of solf lighting to relax your eyes and ensure you do not stumble, but not dominating lighting. LED track lights, semi-wall lights, LED ceilling light are common applied in the garage.
Task fixtures: This kind of lighting mainly disperses sufficient illumination to enhance visibility and promote task productivity. As for the bright lighting, tube lights and linear lights are the best choices, as well as the recessed LED downlights are the pretty good ones used as task lighting.
Accent fixtures: Accent lighting are used to light important areas such as the inlet and outlet of the garage, and some closet/ cabinet in the garage, so the pendant lights, and up and down wall sconces are suitable to create an appealing effect.
What Is The New Stipulation Of Architectural lighting design standard GB50034-2013?
Residential building: garage floor illumination 30 lx, current value of lighting power density ≤ 2.0W/m, target value ≤ 1.8W/m;
Public buildings: garage floor illuminance 50 lx, the current value of lighting power density ≤ 2.5W/m, target value ≤ 2.0W/m;
What Are Design Standards For Lighting In Underground Buildings?
- The direction of the long axis of the channel lamps is consistent with the in and out direction of the vehicle.
- When the parking lot has only one entrance and exit, a display signal for vehicle entry and exit should be set up.
- Parking spaces should be equipped with parking lights
Why Excessive Lighting is important?
Due to the "adaptive lag" phenomenon of the pupil of the human eye, the driver’s vision cannot adapt quickly when the driver quickly enters another environment with a large brightness value contrast in the driving vehicle, and if the driver drives from the underground parking lot at night the brightness of the environment will suddenly drop when going out or entering the underground parking lot from the outdoors during the day, it will cause his instant blindsight;
On the contrary, the driver will suffer a feeling of glare if the ambient brightness suddenly rises when driving out of the underground parking lot during the day or driving into the underground parking lot from the outside at night. This kind of visual obstacle in entering and leaving the parking lot can easily cause the driver to make mistakes in judging the oncoming car and the distance between the front and rear vehicles, causing accidents. In order to overcome this situation, transition lighting should be designed at the entrance and exit of the lane.
Therefore, a good design with excessive lighting is important. The following is the design principle of excessive lighting.
The Garage Entrance: To deal with the instant blindness during the day, from the outdoor to the internal ramp section, the entrance lighting group is adjusted to transition from high illuminance to low illuminance; After entering the garage, the illuminance of the entrance lane should also be higher than that of the internal lane for a certain distance, so that the driver's vision can enter the adaptation period of environmental brightness changes in advance and gradually adapt to the illuminance decline inside the garage. (This theory is the same used in the garage export)
On the other hand, in order to prevent glare sensation when driving in at night, the entrance lighting set is regulated to transition from low illumination to high illumination, and the lamps at the entrance, especially on the open baffle of the entrance lane, should try to overcome glare.
In summary, the illuminance at the junction of the garage entrance and exit and outdoor should be appropriately higher than that inside the garage during the day; The night should be lower than the inside of the garage
