The practice of placing windows, skylights, light shelves and reflective surfaces to bring natural light deep into a building interior, reducing reliance on artificial lighting and shaping the orientation and section of sustainable design. A consideration since antiquity, visible in the oculus of the Pantheon in Rome, daylighting is now a formal discipline within contemporary green building design.
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Formulated Year1929 dates Le Corbusier's often-quoted statement, cited in this source, calling architecture's history a struggle for light; the practice of admitting daylight into buildings is far older, and this source gives no earlier year for daylighting named as a distinct design concept. Domain
Domain (category)Environmental / Sustainable 1 Concept DomainSustainability, Environmental Design 1 Connections
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Additional Source The Pantheon (Wikipedia)
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Wikimedia FoundationDaylighting (architecture), Design, Qualitative section
In 1929, the French architect, Le Corbusier said that "The history of architectural material... has been the endless struggle for light... in other words, the history of windows."
- Wikipedia: Daylighting
- In Category: Concepts
- Associated With: Passive Solar Design
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