EXERCISES --
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NavigationDaylighting
is an exercise-based seminar. As explained in the first class, it is my
desire to provide you with ample opportunity for concrete experience,
reflective observation, and active experimentation in addition to abstract
conceptualization.
Classwork in 2004 now underway.
Summaries Exhibit of Class Exercises in 2002
The class is now working on documenting the assignment, process, and
results of these exercises. Coordinators for the documentation are:
| 8. Dynamic effects exercise | Corey |
| 7. Windows by decade exercise | Jane, Gwelen |
| 6. Lighting log | Inga |
| 5. Exterior qualities exercise | Naoya |
| 4. Forty qualities of daylight | Silvia, Elena |
| 3. Sketch / two-hour models | Rosie |
| 2. Proof of concept exercise | Eddie, Karen |
| 1. Warmup (chapel) exercise | Manuel, Dror |
Exercise
8: Dynamic
Effects Exercise
Wherein you are challenged to devise a way of communicating the variability of daylight over in one of several time scale. Traditional photographs tend to freeze time and thus under represent marvelous variations that animate daylight. Show us what we are missing.
Exercise
5:
Source Qualities Exercise
(Shoe Box)
We have developed our list of forty qualities and it is available for your use. remember that this assignment is a great learning experience -- fun even -- if you look for these qualities throughout the assignment period. Don't wait to the last minute.
Exercise 4: Two-Hour Model Exercise
(handout to follow)
Exercise
3:
The Daylight Qualities Exercise
One of the forty 'qualities' is a daylighting fixture perhaps like
the skylight shown here at SOM's new SFO International Terminal
We
have developed our list of forty qualities and it is available
for your use. remember that this assignment is a great learning
experience -- fun even -- if you look for these qualities
throughout the assignment period. Don't wait to the last minute.
Exercise
2:
The Proof-of-
Concept Exercise
Two views of a faculty office
in the architecture department at Georgia Tech (top) and a model
of the same space (bottom) demonstrate how accurately a model can
reproduce the conditions in a real building. The model was
built by former Georgia Tech students Ray Hitt, Bonnie Kilpatrick,
and Richard Stevens
The
Proof-of-Concept exercise asks students, in groups of four, to
construct a daylighting model representing an existing space. The
general idea is that this then allows apprentice daylighting model
buildings to compare observations, photographs, and measurements
of the model to their counterparts in full scale. This is a great
way to temper daylighting modeling skills and is perhaps the most
valuable exercise in the class. Part 2 of the project asks
students to modify and retest their space.
Sectional
and perspective views of the hypothetical chapel space provided by Chaz
Ehrlich, a former student. These are computer simulations of light
distribution created using the RADIANCE program. Are aspects of these
images counterintuitive? The perspective view is linked to a larger image.