presentation for first year studio students and architects

1. İzmir Economy University
Arts and Design II-FFD102
Spring Semester 2019
18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
image c@architecturestudent.com
image c@firstinarchitecture.co.uk

2. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
«Light is ENERGY and light is MATHEMATICS» SANJAY MOHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1R7ofw4lY4&t=2286s
Visual History of Light:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPyOPUzwZ2g
History of Light:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak7GB74Qlug
Sun and Site
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly8orBNiNQM
image c@architecturestudent.com

3. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
Youtube light in architecture notes
Lets brainstorm:
What are the lights
we see and use as architects?
.SUNLIGHT
.ARTIFICIAL MANMADE LIGHTS
.MOONLIGHT AT NIGHTS  ROMANTIC
.REFLECTION OF LIGHTS AND
SURFACES-SNOW-WATER-MIRRORS
MAYBE?
.CANDLE LIGHT MANMADE
 ROMANTIC 
.FIRE
Modulating natural light in architectural space (Sanjay Mohe) image c@architecturestudent.com

4. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
Light KEEPS CHANGING ALL THE TIME!
SUNSETS WE ADORE WATCHING THEM
BECAUSE WE CAN NOT POSSESS-
WE NEVER GET BORED IMMORTAL QUALITY
IN ARCHITECTURE
image c@architecturestudent.com

5. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
image c@https://iitcoa1styear.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/arch113_solar_2018.pdfUniversity of Versailles Science Library
Diagram of sun path in December Kelly Li
SUNPATH: YOU CAN OBSERVE AND
RESEARCH SUN POSITIONS AT YOUR
SITES FOR YOUR PROJECT AT
DIFFERENT HOURS AND MAKE DIAGRAMS

6. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
image c@ google earth pro & suntools
There are a lot of programs that gives us sun study and sun
pathsWe can draw manually or we can get information digitial
image c@architecturestudent.com
image c@ google earth pro & suntools

7. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
imagesc@jiyeonsong imagesc@jiyeonsong
• BECAUSE SUNLIGHT CHANGES AT EVERY MOMENT IN THE DAY AND
AT NIGHT – WE AS ARCHITECTS NEED TO EXPERIMENT AND MAKE A
LOT OF DIAGRAMS AND CALCULATIONS FOR PERFECT RESULTS AND
DESIGN SOLUTIONS

8. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
image c@30x40 design
image c@https://iitcoa1styear.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/arch113_solar_2018.pdf
image c@https://iitcoa1styear.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/arch113_solar_2018.pdf
image c@dumielauxpeices

9. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
LIGHT:
Quantity of light
Direct?
Indirect?
image c@https://iitcoa1styear.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/arch113_solar_2018.pdf
image c@Ching
LIGHT:
Effect of opening
Location
Shadows?
Color of the Spaces?

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Light in Architecture
How about this? Do you agree? Maybe?
Maybe not? It all depends on your design decisions.
image c@https://iitcoa1styear.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/arch113_solar_2018.pdf

11. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
image c@https://iitcoa1styear.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/arch113_solar_2018.pdf
image c@https://iitcoa1styear.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/arch113_solar_2018.pdf

12. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
image c@https://iitcoa1styear.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/arch113_solar_2018.pdf
c@Shadow patterns at Creo Hall,
designed by architect Akira Sakomoto Casa.

13. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
image c@https://iitcoa1styear.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/arch113_solar_2018.pdf

14. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
image c@https://iitcoa1styear.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/arch113_solar_2018.pdf

15. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
image c@https://iitcoa1styear.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/arch113_solar_2018.pdf

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Light in Architecture
image c@AtulPathak_designer
image c@AtulPathak_designer

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Light in Architecture
image c@Parween Karim image c@Parween Karim

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Light in Architecture
image c@Parween Karim
image c@Parween Karimc@Parween Karim c@Parween Karim

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Light in Architecture
For Light and Sustainability in
Architecture
USE YOUR EYES
USE THE SUN! 

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Light in Architecture
images c@TiengWei
image and texts c@TiengWei

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Light in Architecture
image and texts c@TiengWei

22. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
image c@lecorbusier
image of an interior corridor _hotel
C@ http://ngonline.club/photos/
Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut, Ronchamp

23. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
image c@Nata_Photo Worldimage c@Ceiling at Pantheon Rome
ONE OF THE GREATEST ROOMS  LOUIS KAHN

24. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
image c@TadaoAndo image c@LouisKahn image c@LouisKahn
LOUIS KAHN
Bottling SUN LIGHT :
LIGHT BOTTLES
METHOD  TUBES
Hurva Synagogue
Sacred Interior
The Church of the Light
TADAO ANDO
USES DARK AND
USES LIGHT
AS HIS SIGNATURE
https://www.handerella.com/louis-kahn-wikipedia.html

25. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
Youtube videos on light in architecture
Natural Light:
• Clear Glass
• Full Length Glass
• Smart Privacy Glass
• Stairways are great spaces
to distribute light
• Skylights
• Glasstubes
• GlassFloors! Even 
• Courtyards
• Clearstory Windows
How user experience
Natural Light:
• Task Illumination
• Visual Comfort
• Perception
• Wellbeing
• Lux level!
• we measure BY LUX!
• Classrooms: no glare ( parlama olmasın)
• Artists love North Studios for proper light

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Light in Architecture
image c@StevenHollimage c@StevenHoll
image c@StevenHoll
image c@StevenHoll
Shenzhen Art Museum and Library Shenzhen Art Museum and Library

27. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
Light in Architecture
image c@ShannonScottimage c@hateletol churchhttp://www.zynorique.com/architectural-models/
image@Amandeep Malhi
http://www.zynorique.com/architectural-models/
http://www.zynorique.com/architectural-models/
• SKETCH MODELS
ARE BEST OPPORTUNITIES
TO WORK ON
SUN AND LIGHT STUDIES!

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Light in Architecture
image c@StevenHoll’s office
Activities we perform
need more light
than many of the
other spaces!

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Light in Architecture
Books to take it further:
image c@ribaimage c@braun image c@monacelli press
This was just a short entry to an infinite topic 
Please take it further and read on! THANK YOU.

30. 18 -25 /March_Aybige Tek_2019
image c@SajayMohe Presentation
References:
• The Architecture of Natural Light Monacelli Press
• https://iitcoa1styear.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/arch113_solar_2018
• Light in Architecture Slide Share Slides
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEK5A-O_E9g
• www.firstinarchitecture.co.uk
• image c @ http://www.expandedenvironment.org/zoo-de-vincennes-renovation/
• image c @ Parco delle Sughere (cork oak park) in Donoratico, by Italian architecture firm
• image c@ Point Pleasant Park, Halifax. North Design Office
• https://www.floornature.com/blog/regeneration-of-the-parco-delle-sughere-a-cork-oak-
park-on-the-next-landmark-2014-shortlist-9841/
• image c @ Duncan Heather
Light in Architecture + Environmental Factors