People move and meet
Concert halls, congress centres, schools, waiting areas and lounges, museums, churches, trade fair halls and gastronomic areas are also meeting or gathering areas. Outdoors, pedestrian precincts,market places and parking areas as well as building vicinities belong to the 'public' segment.
Lighting concepts for public areas are a way of communicating a message to the visitor or user about the space. Entrance areas, foyers and atriums should give people a feeling of welcome and have a representative function. Market places, pedestrian zones and historic town areas should invite the visitor to browse. Restaurants, bistros and bars should emanate a feeling of comfort or glamour.
For terminals, trade fair halls and traffic zones, lighting serves visual direction and orientation. In concert halls, auditoriums or museums, lighting directs attention to the presentation. Lighting effects (for example with spotlighting) ensure an effective staging of architecture both
indoors and outdoors. The diversity of possible uses in the public segment requires a wide spectrum of lighting instruments. In this segment are represented all areas of lighting, whether lamping, lighting characteristics, mounting methods or
luminaire design.
