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Jan 27, 2014 · The large scale design for daylight starts with urban planning. Create districts and buildings in a form that people receive daylight as their source of light and heat as well as views where and ...
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- How to Factor in Daylighting Design for Healthier Buildings
Good daylighting design can improve the health, mood,...
- Gallery of Light Matters: 7 Ways Daylight Can Make Design More ...
Jun 9, 2022 · Good daylighting design can improve the health, mood, cognitive abilities and productivity of the occupants of homes, schools or workplaces, while reducing the energy consumption of the building ...
Daylighting has been an integral part of architectural design since even before the Pantheon was constructed, where the oculus punctured the dome, letting sunlight filter into the basilica. In the modern era, as our buildings have grown taller and more complex, and as the balance between inside and outside has shifted, the importance of ...
Mar 17, 2022 · Daylighting is, basically, a way of predicting the amount of daylight that enters your home. It removes the element of chance that your space will be too dark or too bright, overheat or not benefit from the natural warmth of light through glazing. Daylighting might be used to refer to the tactical positioning of windows and doors in your home ...
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- Incorporating Daylighting at Slate Upper School
- Natural Light Where It’S Needed. Darkness Where It’S not.
- Simulating Sunlight to Inform Our Design
- Daylighting and High-Performance Buildings
- Shedding Light on Effective Designs
As a follow-on to a successful project we completed for Slate School, we are currently designing a new facility for Slate Upper School. It will offer project-based education to students in grades 7-12. The project includes the reuse of an existing church building as a performing arts space, and a new academic building buried in the site’s topograph...
There are a number of fundamental building strategies that pertain to daylighting. These include building orientation, building organization, and the recognition that different types of spaces need different qualities (and amounts) of light. Working within the site’s natural hillside topography, the new academic building is oriented with a broad si...
In creating our design for Slate Upper School, we are using daylight simulation software to determine how different building orientations and space organization will affect the amount of natural light a space receives. Specifically, we use a software called Sefaira to analyze our digital building model. These simulations include average quantities ...
Effective use of daylighting, and a connection to nature in general, are key components in many certifications for high performance buildings. Here are a few of these certifications, with highlighted credits or principles related to daylighting:
In addition to the technical skill required, two attributes that architects and building owners need to have in order to ensure that spaces get just the right amount of natural light are curiosity and a willingness to iterate through a series of daylighting studies. We have worked with the client to test different fenestration strategies and balanc...
Feb 18, 2021 · The next C of daylighting is Cost. Typically, the focus of a project's cost centers on a product or material's price and the associated installation costs during the design and construction phases. As daylight designers, we must think beyond the initial construction phases and consider the cost of total ownership for a building's lifetime ...
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Jan 18, 2023 · 3. Reduce contrast and glare: Diffusing materials like acid-etched glass can spread daylight evenly through a space, reducing harsh contrasts and making light easier on the eyes. 4. The 90/10 rule: Aim for 90% diffused daylight in interiors, and 10% direct sunlight.
