DAYLIGHTING
QUALITIES EXERCISE
NavigationISSUED: 10 February, 2004
DUE: 13 April, 2004
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 33 digital images, each illustrating one of the 41 qualitative points from the roster we assembled in class. You may document more than 33 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 images 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 encounter (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 digital images during class and will develop in class a plan for their submittal and organization. Be prepared to submit your images digitally with each image properly numbered and initialed. In addition you will submit 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.
(with a big tip of the hat to scribe Sylwia Daniszewska)
1 dapple light produced by vegetation
2 color @ edge of day
3 isolated beam of daylight
4 sparkle
5 light from a second sun
6 daylight-produced spectra
7 water modified daylight
8 traffic modified light
9 heat modified light
10 muted, silent daylight
11 glow
12 rhythm
13 silhouette
14 pattern
15 texture revealed
16 high contrast shadow
17 soft muted shadow
18 penumbral shadow (cast by a source of
considerable width)
19 painful sunlight
20 even diffused, shadow less
21 tinted daylight
22 color mapping interior
23 your sprite
24 translucent shadows
25 material induced glare
26 polluted light
27 phototropic organism
28 twice reflected light
29 distorted shadow
30 pleasantly bright
31 distant source
32 moonlight
33 holy light
34 ephemeral light
35 warm light
36 cold light
37
Berkeley light
38 San Francisco light
39 highlight
40 hypnotic
41 best of show
