Introduction of some main works that MOTOKO ISHII LIGHTING DESIGN INC. has designed recently. Expo 2005 Aichi, Japan, Sannai-maruyama site, Sensoji Temple, Atami Moonlight Beach, Miyagi children's Hospital.
The feature of Kitamachi-Shimashima park is its lighting plan of trees which are along with the axis line of the land in unity with garden lights. The exterior lighting of the new main building of Nihonbashi-Mitsukoshi expresses the tradition and the future by using 350 supernarrow HID floodlight projectors chiefly, and the color temperature of lights are used 3000K and 4200K properly. The lighting plans of movie theaters hold the characteristic of their region. The color lighting is a theme in TOHO Cinemas Fuchu introduced here, and a theme in YURAKUZA is old gorgeous atmosphere of Yurakucho area.
New material for lighting, such as LED, have diversified the lighting design. Lighting designers are required to create the application for new materials, and to propose the development of future materials.
Lighting designers are expected to expand their field of activity from buildings and urban spaces increasingly to "space production." In the course of the designers' collaboration with their numerous clients, it has begun to be recognized that they assume special roles in their professional activities. My essay is an attempt to show what we are at by illustrating the viewpoint of a lighting designer, based on materials from my daily work.
Japan is a leading country about the development of LED technology. I have done many exhibitions of LED with many designers and architects to make people aware the possibilities of LED. I introduce some new style LED ornament events from its beginning one to the recent ones.
Light exists where people live. People live where light exists. In the present age, we should revive this natural light environment in accordance with basic human activities Possibilities of new cities and buildings can be derived from a method that leads to functional solutions through the pursuit of design interacting with humans.
Lighting design is the job which create the visible relationship between human beings, living space and time, also is the work which is required to make the beautiful scene and the comfortable space. Lighting designer carefully observes the novel era and then, finds the permanent request to create the novel lighting. The author discuss various cases of "Heart Island Shinden 1-chome", "Kyushu National Museum", "Toyota City Lighting" and "Re-tem" in this paper.
I will explain the lighting of the concession area in the Central Japan International Airport "CENTRAIR", the environmental lighting, the lighting for promenade, facade of Sky Town. Please enjoy many photographs.
This article is an outline of the lighting plan and process for "JR Tower" as the terminal station and related huge buildings, and "Minato Mirai Station" as advanced station is located underground level. Especially the mutual understanding of a general idea on the first stage among the client, architect and us is described as a focus point.
More people have been interested in lighting design year after year. Lighting designers are getting more opportunities to be active. By means of technological innovation, design contents and techniques of presentation are changing. We need not only knowledge of lighting and experience but also a wide range of knowledge and consideration about ambient surroundings. We introduce some examples of construction and contents of lighting design.
We introduce two projects in China, mixing the difference of China and Japan. One is Beijing Wangfujing department store, and the basic concept of its lighting plan is the contrast and the harmony between the old traditional building and the new daring building. The other is Beijing Zhongguancun software park, and its lighting plan makes good use of its characteristic shape.
A title "The Tomorrow's Design". I introduce a work completed in 2005 of the Miki Matsushita lighting design company which lighting designer Miki Matsushita sponsors office for a digest with an lighting design idea. In a theme, "make something new". I constitute it redevelopment project, university, subway, an event.