Architecture & daylight

Beskrivelse

The course presents various methodologies to explore, describe, and communicate daylight in architecture in relation to humans' experience of daylit spaces. Daylight is a multifaceted topic that can be analyzed through a diversity of various disciplines. The course questions how daylight is described. Is it in relation to the geometrical architectural form? In relation to perception? In regard to construction technology? In relation to a philosophical approach or a cultural meaning of light? During the course, the PhD students are encouraged to relate their own projects to the various methodologies presented.
Among Nordic architects, there is a tradition of strongly believing that the qualities of daylight in architecture have a special and highly esteemed role. Both from a cultural point of view as well as an aesthetic approach, daylight is pinpointed as one of the essential parameters in architectural design, together with a 'sense' of place, the inclusion of materiality, and the focus on human scale.
Throughout the course, the pavilion “Poetic Daylight” will work as a tool to observe daylight on-site and to explore various methodologies to define and describe it. These methodologies will be unfolded through an interdisciplinary series of lectures by highly esteemed practitioners, theorists, and researchers relating to daylight and architecture in a Nordic context. Through the lectures and a series of appointed texts, a broad approach to defining and describing the experience of daylight in architecture is presented.
The course aims to present a diversity of methodologies for investigating daylight in general and, more specifically, daylight in architecture in a regional context.

Periode	7 okt. 2024 → 11 okt. 2024
Begivenhedstype	Kursus
Grad af anerkendelse	International