Aesthetics of Lighting of Trees in Valiasr Street; Artistic Approach, the Missing Link in Lighting in Tehran

Document Type : Review

Authors

1 PhD Candidate in Art research / Nazar Research Center

2 university of Tehran

Abstract

City natural Landscape identity Lighting can improve nightlife quality. Recognizing urban identity elements and their appropriate lighting is an urban Art. Natural urban elements have personality because they participate in constructing collective memory. The most important natural urban element in Tehran is tree and Valiasr street sycamores are the most characteristic of them. Preserving the character of Valiasr sycamores in lighting for maintaining day and night view can be obtained by implementing aesthetic points. Most of the visual aesthetic points are adaptable on lighting, because lighted night view like a painting has the energy of elements such as Line, point, surface, texture and etc. that made by light on night black background. Like painting, controlling these elements along with the background can cause different Expressions of the same subjects. Studding the role of aesthetics in maintaining the figure of visual urban elements and improving night view is the goal of this study.

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