Seminars

Design is about balancing the elements, and thus a great deal of lighting design is necessarily about creating and engaging shadow spaces. Different project types and architectural styles demand different levels of artificial light, some create light where there was none and others let the darkness speak. Others find a playful middle ground. In whole, designers must know how to control shadow, thereby avoiding unwanted darkness while creating opportunity for dynamic effect, all within the design requirements.

Topics to be covered include:
• How one can integrate shadows as a functional tool as well as aesthetic design component to enhance emotion, affect behaviour & improve visual experience within an environment
• How one can create dynamic silhouettes & shadows by balancing shadow & light
• How one can play with daytime vs. night-time perception

Speaker: Abhay Wadhwa, Assoc. AIA, AIIA, IESNA, ISLE, USGBC, has been enhancing architecture through lighting design for over 15 years. As president and principal-in-charge of New York-based AWA, he has led diverse lighting-design projects for commercial, civic and residential schemes in some of the fastest-growing economies worldwide, including China, India and Dubai. He received the International Illumination Design Award for his work at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, as well as numerous awards for the George Washington Bridge Towers in New York and New Jersey. Abhay studied architecture in Mumbai and holds a master’s degree from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He is currently an adjunct professor at LRC.