Schoterlandseweg, Heerenveen: contemporary design with warm light

A village road with houses close to the carriageway

The Schoterlandseweg runs as a long ribbon road through the villages east of Heerenveen, including Nieuwehorne. Along much of its length, houses stand close to the carriageway and cyclists share the road with through traffic. When public lighting on a road like this is renewed, two requirements usually apply: the luminaire has to fit the village scene by day, and the light has to be warm and calm in the evening, without spill light into bedrooms.

Clean, geometric lines on the column

The chosen luminaires have a contemporary design with clean, geometric lines and no classical decoration. Lighting designers and architects regularly set this requirement, outside cities too. A luminaire often stays on the same column for fifteen years or more and shapes the streetscape by day as much as the light does by night. A slender conical column and a clean luminaire in one colour give a calm, coherent picture.

Warm white light in the village centre

The light along the road is warm white. In residential streets and village centres, 3000 K or warmer has become the usual choice: residents find it more pleasant, it causes less nuisance behind the curtains and it follows current guidance on light pollution for people and wildlife. You lose very little efficiency: the street luminaires in our VIA range reach 150 to 160 lm/W at 2700 K. For a village road like this, a P class from EN 13201 often comes into view, such as P3 or P2 with an average of 7.5 or 10 lux. Which class applies is decided by the road authority.

The same look with VIA and POLARIS

This project was not supplied by Lichtplein, but you can create the same look with ranges from our assortment. The street luminaires in the VIA range have a flat, clean housing, are rated IP66, tilt on a 60 mm spigot and are available in warm white at 2700 K. 10 kV surge protection is fitted as standard, useful on long cable runs outside the village centre. You choose the control: DALI-2 and D4i, a driver with AstroDIM, or power setting via dip switch.

On a small square, by the church or around a bus stop, a post-top luminaire is the better fit. POLARIS lights all round, fits columns of 60 to 80 mm and can be set in both power and colour temperature (2200 K, 3000 K or 4000 K), with the remote control if required.

Columns, connection and spacing

Conical steel columns of 4 or 6 metres from the TURRIS range are the logical base here, hot-dip galvanised or powder coated in RAL 9005. The cut-out units in the NEXUS range fit in the door opening. With a Type II or Type III optic at 4 metres, a rule of thumb gives column spacings of roughly 20 to 30 metres, depending on road width and lighting class. A lighting calculation for 350 euros excluding VAT gives certainty on class and uniformity in advance.

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