In most cases, shopping mall lighting design is paid more attention for large foot traffic and complicated consumers. Its excellent lighting layout can attract customers, promote commodity sales and expand its reputation and influence, creating a comfortable visual environment. For this reason, we need to consider the lighting requirements from the viewpoint of commercial design. In addition, we should think the mall lighting design is divided into the uniform lighting in public area and personalized lighting in each store. Usually, they are brand clothing, luxury goods, cosmetics shops, cafes and restaurants. Owing to the fact, mall owner will invite lighting company to design the former. And the operators themselves were in charge of their store lighting combined the mall decoration style. As a light manufacturer, we shall share how mall lighting design is planned in the following.
Mall entrance lighting
In general, the entrance of the mall makes the first impression on customers with great foot traffic. Its lighting should create a bright and high-end atmosphere to inspire the consumption emotions in the customers. Additionally, the bright space also makes customers feel safe. For this reason, it should be brighter than other interior areas. We suggest LED down lights as general lighting and LED grille spot lights as accent lighting to emphasize store label. And their color temperature should be coordinated with the indoor to avoid too strong contrast and obvious transition.
Atrium lighting
Ordinarily, the atrium is the buffer area for public activity in the mall, which can increase the sense of its openness, regulate its air conditions. And improve the space quality and level of the entire mall. Therefore, the atrium lighting design should be attached importance to artistry and decoration. It should create a comfortable environment according to mall style and local culture. In most cases, designers adopt natural lights in the daytime and artificial lights at night in the open-roofed central court. Due to the fact, we suggest LED down lights in the ceiling to promote inefficient ceiling lights, and wall sconces to enrich space layering. If the atrium is a large circle, a crystal chandelier can be used according to style and local culture. Especially a custom chandelier is made to order by chandelier manufacturer.
Lighting of escalator and elevator
Normally, in high-end shopping malls, there are at least two escalators and elevators on each floor to ensure passenger capacity. And they focus on function rather than decoration. On the whole, they are located either at the end of the shopping area or the atrium area in the mall. The former are not decorative, the latter are combined with function and decoration. Most of them are designed with full transparent glass, which are certain decorative. Their shapes are mostly parallel, cross and rotary. They look more beautiful with proper lighting.
And appropriate lights on both sides of the elevator handrails can guide customers to walk, we recommend hidden LED tube lights lighting their vertical glasses, giving a sense of security with decorative role. Additionally, we could fix on recessed LED spot lights at the bottom of the upward handrail stair to provide general lighting for the downward one.
Lighting of elevator corners
On the other hand, the corner spaces between the elevator and the elevator are a place with large foot traffic. At the same time, they are also an area to display the commodity information of the floor. And we recommend opting for LED down lights as general lighting and LED grille lights with high color rendering index as accent lighting.
Store lighting
Lighting modes
In most cases, stores in the shopping mall are divided into clothing, shoes, jewelry, everyday goods. They are displayed in various forms such as model, shop window, islanded shelves, wall cabinet and showcase. Owing to the fact, we propose choosing LED grille lights, LED down lights, LED panel lights as general lighting. Consequently, they are in accord with overall lighting of the shopping mall as well as uniform impression on customers. In addition, they are also used to display different goods individually in similar category store.
Suggested light fixtures
To highlight the three-dimensional sense, material and color of the goods, we can use grilled and tracked LED spot lights as accent lighting. They focus on models and islanded shelves to increase visual effects and customers’ expectations of the goods. Their light sources should be high color rendering except lighting mode.
Additionally, jewelries are usually shown in glass cabinets. To emphasize their textures, we advise picking out LED spot lights as accent lighting or recessed ones with LED cup lamp as light source. For clothing in the wall cabinets, we could apply hidden LED tube lights to light the dark section for the top lighting, so as to increase their three-dimensional sense.
Passage lighting
Normally, passages are public areas for guiding and linking. We divide them into single and double channel, circulating, roundabout, free type passageway. In top shopping mall, it is usual to see roundabout channels, which meet customers’ shopping habits to promote their experiences. Good passage lighting can provide them with correct guidance and ensure the safeties of theirs and the shopping mall. We recommend fixing LED down lights on the ceilings as general lighting to give enough and bright lights.
Lighting of service desk
Usually, service desk is located at the entrance of shopping mall, provided invoicing and deposit. We suggest LED down lights as ambient lighting to achieve high brightness for convenient writing and other operations. In most cases, the background wall of the service desk in the large shopping mall reflects the positioning and culture. We could lay out tracked LED spot lights or wall washing lights as accent lighting to highlight them.
Summary
In short, shopping mall lighting can create a warm, comfortable and clearly guiding visual environment, displaying a commercial station as easy as home. It infinitely stimulates customers’ potential purchase desires with strong attraction. Consequently, good green shopping mall lighting can reduce operating costs; improve its reputation, increase brand influence and annual turnovers.
