Night scenery is one of the urban sceneries created through lighting and it is being perceived as one of the effective methods for increasing the appel of city according to the increase in night activities by urban residents. Night scenery, which can ...
Night scenery is one of the urban sceneries created through lighting and it is being perceived as one of the effective methods for increasing the appel of city according to the increase in night activities by urban residents. Night scenery, which can be seen as a unique scenery created through various lightings, is becoming an important factor in increasing the appeal of city and many foreign cities are already displaying attractive night scenery through the maintenance and specialization of night scenery.
At the arrival of global information age, humans are now facing a complex realm of life & job and diversification of lifestyle and placed in an emotion & design centered society. Accordingly, specific design plans for urban night scenery are being developed based on various discussions for increasing the city value and improving the quality of life of urban residents with the basic goal of maintaining stability. The need for emotional night scenery lighting is gradually increasing also for improving the urban scenery according to the changes in the lifestyle of people, and the scenery lighting that simply lights the structure shape or only emphasizes the brightness of the surrounding should be sublated. In addition, efforts should be made to revitalize emotion-based night scenery lighting that takes into account of its affect on nature environment by removing or reducing excessive lighting, and that can vitalize attractive night activities as well as create high added value.
The structure of advanced design emotion consists of natural, physical, economic and socio-cultural environment factor and individual emotions of functionality, aesthetics and symbolism developed through influences of the psychological factors such as values, attitude, belief, personality, perception, learning and thinking.
The purpose of this study is to examine the user emotion expressions on scenery lighting according to the components that need to be considered in the planning of urban night scenery lighting. Accordingly, the images of day scenery and night scenery were collected from the day & night sceneries that form the urban scenery, and frequency analysis, standard deviation and factor analysis were conducted through SPSS statistics program for the evaluation scale vocabularies based on the evaluation vocabularies of the preceding studies. Accordingly, similarity of correlation was confirmed between the main goal & objectives of urban night scenery planning and emotion vocabularies based on the result of effectiveness verification as evaluation tool.
Accordingly, it is necessary to continuously conduct studies on beautiful and unique urban night scenery environment by displaying combination of images of more diverse design elements such as various components, lighting attributes & techniques and characteristics.