Philips CPL: Thoughts on Harmonious Urban Lighting

Aristotle said that people come to the city for life and stay in the city better for life. The city bears the history of human civilization and also bears the dream of the future of mankind. With the acceleration of urbanization, the construction of a harmonious city with various characteristics and sustainable development has become the direction of the city's progress. As Patrick Geddes described in "The Evolving City," the cities must no longer spread like ink or oil. Once they are developed, they must be star-like and open like flowers, in the golden light. Alternately with green leaves.

In 2010, Philips Lighting “city.people.light” (CPL), the “City. Resident. Lighting” creative storm kicked off in China. The CPL-themed forum brought together China’s leading urban planners, designers, architects and artists to create a people-centred, livable city on how light can easily improve people’s lives, and for the future development of Chinese cities. It left many magnificent imaginations, and this kind of imagination was written and brushed. In these works, the authors have turned the lighting into a medium to build a more open and interactive urban habitat relationship, forming a benign benign communication between the city's builders and occupants - this was also proposed with Philips Lighting at the beginning of the year. The pursuit of light to enhance the quality of people's lives has reached a coincidence between the table and the table.

How to make a city stand out in the urban forest built with reinforced concrete can not only reflect more humanistic care, but also maintain its own fresh and unique personality. It is a direction for urban designers and planners to think hard. In the process of urbanization, the expansion of scale and the increase of residents are mere representations. How to highlight the leading role of the city in promoting the quality of individual life and how to allow individuals to better participate in the sharing of urban public space in the process is A builder and planner need to pay close attention to the key. In addition, the expansion of the city scale, it is bound to need to increase roads, community management and security considerations, and in the Philips CPL concept, this is the inevitable connotation of urban lighting development.

Under the concept of “City. Residents. Lighting”, it is particularly important to let lights give the city a warm and unique night. Perhaps one day in the future, the city’s night sky will float like a balloon-like romantic lamp, illuminating the journey of each pedestrian in the same way. People will be in the light, people will walk and the light will go out. This is the vision of future urban lighting by Mr. Ma Zhengchun, a senior sustainable construction expert from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a member of the United Nations’ Building and Climate Change Think Tank, and a member of the China Green Building and Energy Conservation Professional Committee. Autonomous control does not require fixed city lighting. It not only satisfies the lighting needs of the city, but also gives enough freedom and comfort to everyone living in the city. It also impresses people in the process of building a humanized city and an image city.

Also a floating concept, Mr. Lian Dapeng, the design director of the architectural design center of the Meng Jianmin Institute of Architectural Design under the Shenzhen Institute of Architectural Design and Research, transmitted the sustainable development of the cultural city from another perspective. Lamps that fly like fireflies, in the night sky of the city, give the people walking a night of light and tranquility. But it is not only that. If these hard workers constantly absorb sunlight, they receive solar energy and have enough energy. Every night, these hard work lamps emit light and give the city a safe and warm lighting environment. These small firefighting luminaires may also have the ability to integrate lighting. When people are numerous, they come together like fireflies to give people more suitable light. Maybe, like the barometer, it can show everyone's different moods, such as the green when they are happy, the gray when they are upset, the blue when they are sad, and so on. The colorful city night is the best endorsement of the image city.

The iconic architecture has played a more important role than the construction of the nighttime buildings and the city, and the lights have played an increasingly important role in shaping the city's image. As human life moves towards urbanization, people and nature begin to alienate, separate, divide and oppose each other. The establishment of an image city is reflected in the fact that it focuses on lighting. In fact, it embodies the coexistence of a humanistic city and a harmonious city. For the concept of the Philips CPL, it allows the city to show its unique charm in special lighting designs so that it can be human. To provide a more comfortable living environment is the purpose of image city.

From ground to underground - multi-level energy-saving equation

Another major theme of the Philips CPL concept is the sustainable development of a harmonious city. The development of cities in the future will face constraints from factors such as the environment, resources, and population, especially in China. The key to sustainability lies in the treatment of the relationship between man and nature in the process of urban development. Under the three pressures of environment, resources and population, the future development of the city is more challenging. It is necessary to handle the relationship between man and nature and maintain the overall comfort and harmony of the city.

Urban lighting, especially in the field of energy conservation and environmental protection, must not only meet the needs of contemporary people for lighting, but also save resources and protect the environment. This has led to higher requirements for the design of lamps and lanterns, and the need to change the design of lamps and lanterns. Ideas. Traditional lighting fixtures often use electrical energy, ignoring the use of clean energy. The design of Mr. Feng Fan, the design director of the British (Shanghai) Blue Road Architectural Planning Company, is another way. By designing the road surface, the road surface is divided into three layers: The first layer is asphalt, which is black and can fully absorb solar energy; The second layer is a heat storage layer to preserve the absorbed heat; the innermost layer is a thermoelectric conversion layer that absorbs light during the day and discharges at night. Daylight and night use can completely solve road power consumption, not only saving resources, but also has a very good economic benefits.

From the ground to the ground, Ms. Cheng Yu, designer of CCDI Zhongjian International Design Company, thinks more about the safety of underground passages. The requirements for lighting fixtures in underground passageways have always been relatively high, and they have not done well in the field of energy conservation. Cheng Hao believes that some solar energy technology can be used during the day to design a circular light hole on the ground and underground, using glass or other transparent materials, and the light that comes through will be stored and converted by some equipment, and at night, underground passages. The pavement can store the light stored during the day, and the light beam can be used to not only make the underground passage bright, but also to create a light effect on the road surface and save the use of road light. Her design concept not only solved the problem of lighting energy saving in underground passages, but also provided good support for ground lighting.

Sustainable development of a harmonious city is not only a requirement for lighting safety and diversity, but also a requirement for lighting energy conservation. In both of these design concepts, innovations in the field of energy conservation are included, and meaningful innovations promoted by Philips provide better lighting solutions. Philips Lighting believes that energy saving is imperative, and the key to the next step is to see how the leaders will go further in the innovation of energy conservation measures.

The CPL creative storm has provided the imagination wings for Philips' idea of ​​building a livable city with lights, and Philips has always insisted on meaningful innovation in the field of technology and has provided more concepts and products for sustainable cities. stand by. People-oriented, light and easy to improve people's lives, reflecting a more concerned about user needs and feelings of the new Philips image is gradually clear. In the process of building a livable city, with lighting as the core, establishing a multi-partner partnership has become another layer of this new image. These efforts have made the city in the glimpse of time, exudes glamorous luster, and come up with eternal moments.