Keywords: campus architecture; campus culture; night landscape; lighting design;
1. Characteristics of the campus environment and the image of the night landscape
University campuses are relatively independent and special community environments, which are characterized by urban communities and urban residential areas, as well as elements different from ordinary urban environments. It has the main functions of “learning†and the characteristics of “campus cultureâ€. It has become a typical image feature of the campus environment, and the campus architecture has a specific cultural color. Whether it is daytime landscape design or night lighting environment design, campus architecture should reflect this "cultural trait".
As far as "culture" is concerned, the culture in a broad sense refers to the general term for all material wealth and spiritual wealth created in the historical practice of human society; the narrow sense of culture refers to the spiritual product of society, that is, the ideological and moral, technological, and educational aspects of society. , a complex of art, literature, religion, traditional customs and institutions. Culture is a concrete and historical phenomenon.
If culture is used in lighting, it will create another new concept - "light culture." In its broadest sense, it refers to the existence of humanized light in the practice of social history, including both artificial lighting and natural lighting. In the narrow sense, it only refers to the addition of light and color as a kind of vocabulary to the objective material carrier in artificial lighting, and together with it constructs a culture to be expressed. Under normal circumstances, the vocabulary is identical to the culture expressed by the vocabulary of the objective material carrier; sometimes, the culture expressed by the vocabulary of light and color is also relatively independent. As a special type of building, campus architecture can be called a narrow culture - "campus culture".
"Campus culture" can be understood as an abstraction of technical culture from a large perspective. From a small perspective, it can be extended to educating people's culture and specific moral culture and life culture. If it rises to the theoretical level, campus culture is a high-level social subculture, which is the main component of the “hidden culture†in the school's cultural structure. Different subcultures will form different cultural orientations, which will affect the exertion of intellectual and non-intellectual factors.
Therefore, the ideology of night lighting should strengthen this cultural image through lighting, and convey the progressiveness of this representation.