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Urban Acupuncture
Regenerating Public Space Through Artificial Lighting Interventions
Bouncing Light Experiment. Brandt, U. Unit 17. 2021.
Ulrike Brandt
BArch 2021Supervisors:
Unit Leader: Gregory Katz
Unit Tutor: Jaco Jonker
Unit Assistant: Senzo Mamba
UNIT 17︎︎︎
To Be Orna-ment To Be
I have been looking at the concept of urban acupuncture, which is healing the sicknesses of public space through small and successful interventions, to regenerate public space at night using glass and artificial lighting as materials. This project is important to me because I believe that as South Africans, we do not always have the luxury to roam the streets at night to indulge in human interaction and taking in different cultures due to a lack of public spaces suitable for night-time use.
The site I selected for my lighting interventions is the BRT station on Louis Botha Street in Orange Grove. I researched the psychological effects on humans of different colour lighting and positioning of lighting to create interventions set out at various points around the site to allow a person to feel different emotions as they move through the space. I also looked at and experimented with moving or bouncing a single light source around so that my interventions would brighten up the space by bouncing existing lighting to darker areas.
The goal of these interventions is to create a public space where people want to interact with the space and with one another to allow for people to achieve that innate human desire of a sense of belonging.
The site I selected for my lighting interventions is the BRT station on Louis Botha Street in Orange Grove. I researched the psychological effects on humans of different colour lighting and positioning of lighting to create interventions set out at various points around the site to allow a person to feel different emotions as they move through the space. I also looked at and experimented with moving or bouncing a single light source around so that my interventions would brighten up the space by bouncing existing lighting to darker areas.
The goal of these interventions is to create a public space where people want to interact with the space and with one another to allow for people to achieve that innate human desire of a sense of belonging.
Keywords:
Healing, Regenerate, Belonging
Healing, Regenerate, Belonging
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