LUMINOSITY
CONTENTS • • SITE PLAN
• ELEVATION
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• ARIAL AND GROUN
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• SHADE AND SHADOW
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• ACCESS AND MOVEMENT
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• PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF LIGHT
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• ADDITIONAL SITE INFORMATION
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• LUMINOSITY
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• PHILOSOPHICAL MEANING OF THE LIGHT
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• CASE STUDY
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SITE PLAN
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ELEVATION
MATH BUILDING
ENGINEERING BULDING
BAR SMITH LIBRARY BUILDING
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ARIAL VEIW
GROUND VIEW
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SHADE AND SHADOW summer
winter
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12pm
3pm
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ACCESS AND MOVEMENT
SAFE WALK WAY
LOADING ZONE
ACCESS CARPARKS
BUILDING MAIN ENTERY
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PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF AMBIENT LIGHT (DAY)
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PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF AMBIENT LIGHT (NIGHT)
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STUDYING
PICNIC
SPORT
EVENTS
MEET UPS
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Luminosity 1. The quality of being intellectually brilliant, enlightened, inspired, etc.: The luminosity of his poetry is unequalled. 2. Astronomy the intrinsic brightness of a celestial object (as distinct from its apparent brightness diminished by distance) ‘Altair has ten times the luminosity of the sun’ 3. Physics the rate of emission of radiation, visible or otherwise.
philosophical meaning of the light Light is present, light is being, and light is love. Light is a pathway to find love. Everything in the whole universe identifies with its opposition. Compresence of the silence is only through explosion, without the winter, summer will be meaningless and light is sensed only through the absolute darkness. Light is the treasure of presence when you can find yourself in the moment not the past or the future. The fact is that the past is a dream so is the future, therefore, we are all surrounded with the present and to find the moment is to find the light in your heart. Living in the moment brings the luminosity of the conciseness in to the life and it transfers itself to energy and creation so it inspires art, legend and science.
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Case study The nature of human is to communicate with his surroundings through his five senses: Sight (vision), hearing (audition), taste (gustation), smell (olfaction), and touch (somatosensation). Luminosity in architecture is the communication of the man with his environment by the sense of vision through the reflected light. Luminosity is expressed through space, form and material. Light will brighten the darkness and gives it an identity. In the other word, the darkness will revive through the light.
The Jewish museum in berlin by Daniel Libeskind is a good example of influence of the natural light in architecture which can drag human through history with challenging the emotions. The use of rough, cold, raw concrete as the main material, the long empty corridors with only e few opening to get the natural light inside of the building and the void of artificial lightings express feelings of absence, emptiness, and invisibility – expressions of disappearance of the Jewish Culture. The entrance of natural light into the darkness of the space illustrates the darkness and also that even in the darkest moments of life where you feel like you will never escape, a small track of light restores hope. It was the act of using architecture through the paradoxical completion of luminosity and darkness as a means of narrative and emotion providing visitors with an experience of the effects of the Holocaust on both the Jewish culture and the city of Berlin.
The affection of the light in architecture is irrefutable. Luminosity is the nature of the existence and use of the natural light in architecture is more like the quiddity of the light. Zaha Hadid’s light study is more through artificial lighting in form and material. Even though she express the different feelings through the light but it feels like its missing the purity of the nature of the light itself.
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