DAYLIGHTING
QUALITIES EXERCISE
NavigationISSUED: 6 February 2007
DUE: 29 March 2007
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 33 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 Claudio MArtonffy)
A pocket size version of this list is available in MS Word format.
- illuminated shadows
- silhouette – figure-ground
- sun rays – light as solid
- tinted light
- coherently reflected light – mirror
- dappled light
- light modified by water
- excessive light
- beam light diffuse
- contrast induced glare
- refracted light
- sprite light
- grazing or raking light
- luminous surface
- light at the edge of the day – warm, low, diffuse
- particle modified light
- borrowed light from exterior
- light from hidden sources
- shadows mapping light source – multiple
- accumulative shadows – variable edge crispness
- shadowless light
- phototropic people
- refuge from light
- patterned light
- light revealing time
- sparkle daylight
- high color temperature light – high Kelvin, blue sky
- light conveying cold
- diminishing light – tunnel, large cavern
- gradient surface light
- crisp, sharp shadow
- dusk, pre-dawn light – sun below horizon
- color mapped light – light as color map on neutral surface
- light informing circulation – pool of light to link spaces or path
- sun patches as lighting source
- implied solid – photograph source and patch to connect dots
- encumbered horizon – light shaped by proximity of large objects
- interior borrowed light
- gloomy light
- ethereal light – holy
- best of show
- You may use 4 photos maximum you have from past.
- You must have 35 of the 40 qualities for show.
