Abstract
Daylight is essential to the experience of an architectural space. Nevertheless, amongst the handful of predominantly scientific methods available to assess daylight in architecture, there are only a few considering the spatial and form-giving characteristics of daylight. This paper investigates light-zone(s) as concept and tool, which can be taken as a point of departure for a new method to perceive, consider and analyse daylight in architecture. As concept, light-zone(s) are areas, fields or zones of light. It is a way of considering a space’s daylight as (forms of) bubbles or spheres of light, which as light-zones can be compressed, expanded, combined, exploded, etc., all according to the character of 'the meeting' between the light-zone(s) and the space itself (inclusive of the space’s content). Thus, the daylight in a space can be regarded as a composition of light-zones. As tool, light-zone(s) are (spatial) groupings of the lighting variables (intensity, direction, distribution and colour), which are significant to the space and form-giving characteristics of light. That is to say, the light-zone(s) tool is the point of departure for a method of creating a spatial ‘grasp’ on daylighting variables in a given space. The relation between the light-zone(s) concept and tool respectively can be described as follows: On the one level light-zone(s) can be explored as an architectural idea or notion, thus belonging more to the field of architectural theory. On another more practice-driven level, light-zone(s) can be articulated and specified in relation to lighting technology.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Ikke angivet |
Publisher | ARCC/EAAE |
Publication date | 2006 |
Publication status | Published - 2006 |
Event | Emerging research + design: international conference on architectural research (ARCC/EAAE) - Philadelphia, United States Duration: 30 Jun 2010 → … |
Conference
Conference | Emerging research + design: international conference on architectural research (ARCC/EAAE) |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Philadelphia |
Period | 30/06/2010 → … |
Artistic research
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