A framework of darkness: Lighting master plan for the City of Rennes/F.

摘要

In 2009, Rennes City Council launched a climate action plan, principally aimed at a 20 per cent reduction in the electricity consumed for public lighting by 2030. However, a lighting master plan was required in order to introduce a new public lighting strategy. In the brief for the consultation stage, the City Council were looking for lighting designers to investigate the opportunities for lighting or not lighting certain parts of the city. As the winners of the consultation stage, we used the concept of light/dark as the cornerstone of our study, proposing a new lighting strategy for Rennes based on a plan to save and preserve darkness coupled with the creation of a framework of blackness that could be implemented over the city as a whole.