Lighting is an important element of dining space, lighting imperceptibly affects diners' taste, psychology, and is directly related to the positioning and operation of the restaurant. With the deepening of reform and opening up and the development of economy, western restaurants have become more and more deeply involved in people's lives. In addition to the difference between the cuisine and Chinese food, the western restaurant, which represents the casual atmosphere of western petty bourgeoisie, is also very different in decoration design and lighting treatment. Western restaurants need a relaxed, quiet atmosphere, most need to cooperate with dimming system.
The western restaurant can be divided into five parts according to the functional area, and each part needs different degrees of light and darkness and lighting techniques.
• Entrance area
• Auditorium booth area
• Box area
• Interior art decoration display area
• Service channel area
1. Entrance area
The atmosphere and style of a western restaurant can be felt from the entrance area. The basic lighting of the western restaurant is often dark, so as to ensure the private space feeling of the diners, but the entrance area often uses a large image wall to express the cultural meaning and style tone of the restaurant, and the lighting method is also varied, depending on the design situation.
2.The auditorium booth area lighting design
Because the interior of the western restaurant is composed of various materials, such as the material of the desktop, the material of the chair surface and the material of the floor (carpet). Under the same illuminance condition, the reflection ratio of the surface of various materials is different, and the brightness is also different. The brightness of the surface will affect the light environment effect of the overall space. If the reflection ratio of the surface of the material is low, the illuminance should be correspondingly high, if the surface reflection of the material is relatively high, then the reverse. At the same time, it should be noted that the illumination between the ceiling, the wall, the desktop and the floor must be different, otherwise the vision will feel monotonous. The illumination of the desktop, sometimes do not necessarily adhere to the lighting form of adjustable Angle spotlights, but also use candlelight to create a hazy and quiet atmosphere, so that the environment is more reverie space.
3.Box area
The lighting of the box area also follows the principle of low basic lighting and enhanced desktop lighting. But in the processing of lighting is more detailed.
In order to create better privacy, the design of the light is as far as possible not projected from the top, but installed in a lower position. And as far as possible, some decorative lamps are used to enhance the atmosphere.
4. Interior art decoration display area
The interior designer will carefully select suitable art decorations for the space, such as sculpture, relief, tapestry, water curtain and so on. At this time, although the overall indoor light environment is dark, the lighting treatment of art decorations is generally focused on lighting.
For art lighting can choose more lamps, such as illumination relief, large area wall tapestry decoration, etc., you can use halogen lamps with color temperature of about 3000K; The treatment flexibility of the water curtain is high, and an underwater lamp with a color temperature of 3100K can be used to create a subtle effect of light color transformation with LED. It should be noted that the concealment of the light source, the light can not be seen.
5. Service channel area
For the lighting of the service channel, many times do not do special treatment. However, it needs to be determined according to the particularity of the room, sometimes the room will use step treatment to divide the area, we can hide the light strip on the inside of the step or design the side wall light with low wattage to play a guiding role.
