Industrial Heritage: Preserving Equipment, Turning it into Sculpture with Light

Old factory site at night, with huge steel structures, conveyor belts, storage tanks, and chimneys all preserved in situ, without renovation. Traces of rust and mottling are clearly visible. The lighting adopts a theatrical approach: a few narrow-beam spotlights from specific angles illuminate the equipment, bringing out the intersecting lines of the trusses and the curvature of the pipelines. The equipment casts huge and distorted shadows on the rear wall and ground. Most of the factory area remains dark, with only these illuminated equipment groups floating in the night, like a set of sculptures of astonishing scale. The color temperature of the light is neutral, without any beautifying coloration. Avoid: uniformly illuminating the entire factory area, retouching rust marks, using colored light, eliminating equipment projections.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

夜間的舊工廠廠區,巨大的鋼構設備、輸送帶、儲槽與煙囪全部原地保留,未加整修,鏽蝕與斑駁的痕跡清楚可見。照明採取劇場式的做法:少數幾支窄角投光燈從特定角度打在設備上,把桁架的交錯線條與管線的曲率照出來,設備在後方的牆面與地面投下巨大而扭曲的陰影。大部分廠區維持黑暗,只有這幾組被照亮的設備浮在夜色中,像一組尺度驚人的雕塑。光的色溫中性,不做任何美化的染色。避免:把整個廠區均勻打亮、修飾鏽蝕痕跡、使用彩色光、消除設備的投影。