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Illuminating: Natural Light in Residential Architecture.
"The image of open working and living spaces flooded with light has, more than any other, become fixed in our minds as a symbol of modernity and the spirit of the times. While the workplace has always been the focus of ergonomic studies and optimization with respect to a good provision of dayli...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
De Gruyter,
2008.
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| Colección: | Edition Wohnen.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Darker living: how artificial light teaches to love daylight / Gerhard Auer
- Well lighted?: on the status quo of the hunger for light : irreplaceable daylight ; The call for brightness ; Habits and positive attributions ; Artificial light ; The myth of light ; The myth of glass ; Overexposures
- Modern living: light-flooded houses : Modern = bright ; Hygiene through light and housing reform ; Modern architecture, modern living ; Equal heights for equal people ; Floor plans and typology: into the light ; Increasing density and lighting: rows, blocks, and towers ; In healthy light: balconies, loggias, terraces ; Continuing to build with distinction
- Light, sight, space: experiencing light, perceiving space, and looking out : Light and sight ; Between inside and outside ; Looking out: information and contemplation ; The window's loss of importance ; The spatial box: discretion in muted light ; The framed view ; Bursting the box: new spaces of experience ; Flowing spaces: visual boundlessness and clarifying brightness ; The form of windows and the interior ; The mise-en scène of prospects ; Last stop: glass house ; Rehabilitating darkness ; From the form to the shell ; New pleasure in transparency: "the un-private house" ; Semitransparent shells: veiled views and the diffusion of light ; Metamorphoses of the facade ; Reveiling the unveiled: protection from the sun and prying eyes ; Multiple layouts ; Shown in a good light
- Illuminating: seeing well and seeing comfortably: qualities of natural light and rules of thumb for design : Good light planning? The given situation and local conditions: designing the exterior ; Quantitative objectives : Interior design and functional lighting ; Rules of thumb for interior design ; Increasing and optimizing light ; Qualitative objectives : Interior design and seeing comfortably ; Directing light and shade ; Glare control ; Solar control and directing sunlight ; Daylight as design medium
- Lighting effects: beyond seeing comfortably: well-being, mood, experience : The consequences of flooding with light ; A loss of homeyness? ; Physiological and psychological comfort ; One's own four walls ; Buffer zones and transitional space ; The veiled gaze ; The hiding place ; The island of light ; The home as a place of memory ; Lighting and the experience of space ; A play with lights and a theater of materials
- Best of: eleven masters of natural light: landmark concepts of light : Le Corbusier: purifying light ; Richard Neutra: invigorating light ; Frank Lloyd Wright: vitalizing light ; Alvar Aalto: ephemeral light ; Louis I. Kahn: purist light ; Luis Barragán : meditative light ; Tadao Ando: spiritual light ; Jean Nouvel: illusionistic light ; Toyo Ito: atmospheric light ; SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nichizawa: suggestive light ; Steven Holl: animating light.