Artistic and Architectural Lighting of the Building of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

The paper presents the architectural and artistic concept for the lighting of the faculty of Electrical engineering of the Technical University of Sofia - Bulgaria. Except for the simulation model of the architectural lighting of the building, a lot of experiments and preconditions are made. All the surfaces of the building are experimentally tested and their reflective properties are obtained. Test flood lights are chosen according to the reflectance of the surfaces and their color characteristics are experimentally tested. Based on these experimental results, on site experiments are also made and after that the whole idea of the architectural lighting of the twelfth educational building of TU Sofia is simulated. The simulation gives an idea very close to the night look of the building (if the concept is accepted and realized), based on the real characteristics of surfaces and luminaires.