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# Applications: Atriums

# Applications: Atriums

## What Makes Atrium Lighting Feel Like the Outdoors?

Atrium lighting works best when the ceiling itself becomes the light source. A luminous ceiling delivers uniform, glare-free illumination across the full span of the space, so your atrium feels open, bright, and connected to the outdoors.

Cooledge calls this experience immersive illumination. It is a subjective feeling of being surrounded by light in a way that feels comfortable and natural, like being outside.

- ![email image Atriums](https://blog.cooledgelighting.com/hs-fs/hubfs/email%20image%20Atriums.png?width=1250&height=1250&name=email%20image%20Atriums.png)
- ![email image Atriums2](https://blog.cooledgelighting.com/hs-fs/hubfs/email%20image%20Atriums2.png?width=1250&height=1250&name=email%20image%20Atriums2.png)
- ![email imageAtrium 3](https://blog.cooledgelighting.com/hs-fs/hubfs/email%20imageAtrium%203.png?width=1250&height=1250&name=email%20imageAtrium%203.png)
- ![email image3](https://blog.cooledgelighting.com/hs-fs/hubfs/email%20image3.png?width=1250&height=1250&name=email%20image3.png)

(1) Architects: Ayers Saint Gross | Lighting Design: The Lighting Practice | (2) Architect : Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture | Lighting Design: Morrissey Engineering Inc. | (3) Architects: GMB Architects and Engineers | (4) Architect : Gensler (Los Angeles) | Lighting Design: Kris Sandheinrich – KGM Lighting

Immersive illumination is surprising: it delivers high levels of illumination but "feels like less" because we are used to experiencing localized higher levels of illumination created by traditional points and lines of light as inherently bright and in many cases somewhat uncomfortable.

In an atrium, Cooledge Lighting immersive illumination creates a canopy of light that fills the space with ambient luminescence and evokes the positive feeling of being outdoors.

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