Research & Development – white papers
Felsch Lighting Design researches light perception and light quality together with HAW Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. We publish the results as white papers, each with a summary, key findings and a PDF download (the PDF documents themselves are in German).
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Digital as-built documentation with 3D scans
Projects in existing buildings are demanding mainly because the data is unreliable: drawings are missing, out of date or contradictory. This white paper by Felsch Lighting Design …
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EU Taxonomy Regulation: report on the taxonomy alignment of lighting installations
The EU Taxonomy Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2020/852) defines when an economic activity counts as environmentally sustainable. It has been mandatory since January 2022. This …
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Setting light impulses, guiding customers
Light in retail influences behaviour, perception and purchasing decisions. In a field test at the Opticon optician's shop in Hamburg, Felsch Lighting Design and HAW Hamburg used …
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Designing light, light effects
Around 80 % of our perception is visual, and its most important medium is light. In a laboratory study in the virtual studio of HAW Hamburg, Felsch Lighting Design and HAW used …
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The gradient as a measure of character
Part 2 of the publications on the hardness of light (HgF). In the first part, Markus Felsch derives the HgF physically: light in a room only ever becomes softer, never harder, …
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Measuring the character of light – the hardness of light (HgF)
Every lighting designer knows hard and soft light, but until now it could not be measured. Felsch Lighting Design has introduced a new photometric quantity for it: the hardness …