Illuminating Natural Light in Residential Architecture

The image of open working and living spaces flooded with light has, more than any other, become fixed in our minds as a symbol of modernity and the spirit of the times. While the workplace has always been the focus of ergonomic studies and optimization with respect to a good provision of daylight, l...

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Hlavní autoři: Corrodi, Michelle, Spechtenhauser, Klaus, Auer, Gerhard
Médium: E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Switzerland Birkhäuser 2014
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Birkhauser
Vydání:1
Edice:Living Concepts
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ARCHITECTURE / Professional Practice
ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture. Public structures
ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial
Daylighting
ISBN:3038216410, 9783038216414, 9783764386368, 3764386363
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  • Intro -- Introduction -- Darker Living. How Artificial Light Teaches Us to Love Daylight -- Well Lighted? On the Status Quo of the Hunger for Light -- Irreplaceable Daylight -- The Call for Brightness -- Habits and Positive Attributions -- Artificial Light -- The Myth of Light -- The Myth of Glass -- Overexposures -- Modern Living. Light-flooded Houses -- Modern = Bright -- Hygiene through Light and Housing Reform -- Modern Architecture, Modern Living -- Equal Heights for Equal People -- Floor Plan and Typology: Into the Light -- Increasing Density and Lighting: Rows, Blocks, and Towers -- In Healthy Light: Balconies, Loggias, Terraces -- Continuing to Build with Distinction -- Light, Sight, Space. Experiencing Light, Perceiving Space, and Looking Out -- Light and Sight -- Between Inside and Outside -- Looking Out: Information and Contemplation -- The Window's Loss of Importance -- The Spatial Box: Discretion in Muted Light -- The Framed View -- BursBursting the Box: New Spaces of Experience -- FlowFlowing Spaces: Visual Boundlessness and Clarifying Brightness -- The Form of Windows and the Interior -- The Mise-en-Scène of Prospects -- Last Stop: Glass House -- Rehabilitating Darkness -- From the Form to the Shell -- New Pleasure in Transparency: "The Un-Private House" -- Semitransparent Shells: Veiled Views and the Diffusion of Light -- Metamorphoses of the Facade -- Reveiling the Unveiled: Protection from Sun and Prying Eyes -- Multiple Layers -- Shown in a Good Light -- Illuminating: Seeing Well and Seeing Comfortable Qualities of Natural Light and Rules of Thumb for Design -- Good Light Planning? -- The Given Situation and Local Conditions: Designing the Exterior -- The Climate Zone -- The Building's Surroundings -- The Sun's Orientation -- The Building Volumes and Facades -- Quantitative Objectives -- Interior Design and Functional Lighting
  • The Composition of Natural Light -- Terms in Lighting Technology -- The Distribution of Luminance and Transitions -- Rules of Thumb for Interior Design -- The Height and Depth of the Room -- The Size and Position of Windows -- Vertical or Horizontal Openings -- Shadows of Other Buildings -- Increasing and Optimizing Light -- Light from One Side -- Light from More than One Side -- Qualitative Objectives -- Interior Design and Seeing Comfortably -- Light for Information and Wayfinding -- Directing Light and Shading -- Modeling Space -- Reducing Contrast -- Modulating Diffuse Brightness -- Glare Control -- Disability Glare from Excessive Luminances -- Discomfort Glare from Excessive Luminance Contrast -- Silhouette Effect -- Solar Control and Directing Sunlight -- Single-Skin Facades -- Double-Skin and Multiple-Skin Facades -- Daylight as Design Medium -- Lighting Effects: Beyond Seeing Comfortably. Well-Being, Mood, Experience -- The Consequences of Flooding with Light -- A Loss of Homeyness? -- Physiological and Psychological Comfort -- One's Own Four Walls -- Buffer Zones and Transitional Spaces -- The Veiled Gaze -- The Hiding Place -- The Island of Light -- The Home as a Place of Memory -- Lighting and the Experience of Space -- A Play with Lights and a Theater of Materials -- Best of: Eleven Masters of Natural Light Landmark Concepts of Light -- Le Corbusier: Purifying Light -- Richard Neutra: Invigorating Light -- Frank Lloyd Wright: Vitalizing Light -- Alvar Aalto: Ephemeral Light -- Louis I. Kahn: Purist Light -- Luis Barragán: Meditative Light -- Tadao Ando: Spiritual Light -- Jean Nouvel: Illusionistic Light -- Toyo Ito: Atmospheric Light -- SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa: Suggestive Light -- Steven Holl: Animating Light -- Selected Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- On the Authors -- Acknowledgments
  • Well Lighted?
  • Illustration Credits
  • On the Authors
  • Lighting Effects: Beyond Seeing Comfortably
  • Illuminating: Seeing Well and Seeing Comfortably
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  • Backmatter
  • Contents
  • Light, Sight, Space
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Frontmatter --
  • Modern Living
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Best Of: Eleven Masters of Natural Light