Architectural features like Coves and Coffered ceilings afford the Lighting Designer an opportunity to light the Space and hide the Luminaries simultaneously. Cove lighting can be used for both ambient and task lighting while minimizing discomfort and disability glare potential. Revit’s modeling tools allow an easy avenue to incorporate Cove Lighting into a typical ElumTools work-flow.
If you’re working with an Architectural model which already has the Cove construed this step can, of course, be skipped. But building a cove from scratch can also be done quickly, using the Revit modeling tools. Here’s a common technique, illustrated in Section.
For most projects, lighting the Cove from here is a simple matter of adding Lighting Fixture Families and configuring properly in Luminaire Manager. Same procedure you would using for a typical ACT lighting solution. But a, perhaps less obvious, strategy is to assign a Luminous Material to the cove. Here’s the process.
