DAYLIGHTING
QUALITIES EXERCISE
NavigationISSUED: 14 February, 2002
DUE: 16 April, 2002
Exercise
3:
An extended period of photographic observation and sleuthing.
This assignment is intended to sharpen your understanding of a variety of daylighting issues. Each student is to submit a total of 31 slides, each illustrating one of the 41 qualitative points from the roster we assembled in class. You may document more than 31 of the points if you wish, but only 31 are required for class. We will project each of the slides in class on the project due date.
An example of daylight used for silhouette in Foster's Bank of Hong Kong
Your
individual powers of observation comprise the most valuable tool
available for the analysis of daylighting. Since one intent
of this assignment is to sharpen your skills of observation
concerning daylight in architectural space, the slides for this
assignment should be taken personally and not from books. Up
to four of your images can be photographs you have previously
taken (a trip to Europe, etc.). I recommend that you keep a
set of quick notes describing the time, place and specific
impressions of your examples. From previous experience, I
know that this assignment can be quite enjoyable if you conduct
your search during the entire period of the assignment. Get
in the habit of carrying your camera during your daily travels and
observe the spaces you encounhttp://ter (including familiar ones).
If you wait until the last weekend and complete the entire
assignment on charrette it will undoubtedly be a drag. Since
no one likes a downer, start thinking and photographing now.
After we project the slides during class, be prepared to hand your slides in using vinyl slide pages with each slide properly numbered and initialed. Please include a brief roster identifying the building and, if available, the architect.
In each of these categories, unless otherwise described, I seek your image of the best architectural example of a particular quality of daylight.
