Concept: Lighting

Smart use of lighting can be key to setting the scene. Consistant lighting throughtout the map will be important. Using neon strip lighting is a subtle way of illuminating a hallway or small room. But lighting a large room such as the atrium will require a much larger light source. The center peice of the atrium will be a light hanging down into the center of the map.

This hallway looks beautiful, and its clever use of lighting in the ceiling makes the area slightly eery, while the light source is not being obvious and is hidden from plain view. I think this example is a bit to dark for what i want to create, but the technique of subtle lighting in the ceiling is a good one.

Its hard to find a good example of the exact type of achitecture, this looks to 'alien' like, but the strips along the sides provide a nice effect.

Drafts of layout to follow;