Nighttime Pool Lighting and Residents' Daily Routines

The community pool at night needs to achieve two things simultaneously: the poolside must be clearly visible, and residents upstairs must be able to sleep. The approach is to keep all light sources low—underwater lights at the bottom of the pool provide the main illumination, making the water surface glow and become the brightest area in the entire courtyard; linear lights embedded in the paving and under the steps are used only to define changes in elevation at the poolside; vegetation is illuminated with extremely low-intensity upward projections, only hitting the tree trunks and not the canopies; no light fixtures are higher than 1.5 meters. The overall color temperature is warm. Because the ground and water are bright, the sky above remains dark. Night shot from ground level in the courtyard, showing the contrast between the glowing water surface, low-intensity paving, and the quiet architectural massing above. Avoid: high-pole floodlights, illuminated tree canopies, cool white color temperature, areas other than the water surface being too bright.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

夜晚的社區泳池要同時成立兩件事:池畔看得清楚,樓上的住戶睡得著。作法是把光源全部壓低——池底的水下燈提供主要照明,水面因此發亮成為整個中庭最亮的面;池畔只用埋在地坪與階梯下方的線性燈確認高差;植栽用極低照度的向上投射,只打到樹幹不打到樹冠;沒有任何燈具高於一點五公尺。整體色溫偏暖。因為亮的是地面與水,往上看的天空仍然是暗的。夜間從中庭平視拍攝,發亮的水面、低照度的鋪面與上方安靜的建築量體形成明暗對比。避免:設置高桿投射燈、樹冠被打亮、色溫偏冷白、水面以外的區域過亮。