LIGHT STUDY REPRESENTATION 2 RUHI MADAN A1695655
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THE HISTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURE IS THE HISTORY OF THE STRUGGLE FOR LIGHT.
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SITE WITH SURROUNDING BARR SMITH LIBRARY
THE BRAGGS
MOLECULAR SCIENCE
NORTH ELEVATION
BARR SMITH LIBRARY
INGKARNI WARDLI
SCALE 1:1000
ENGINEERING AND MATH SCIENCE
SANTOS BUILDING
SOUTH ELEVATION
E L E V A T I O N
S H A D O W S I N S U M M E R
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S H A D O W S I N S U M M E R
JUNE 22
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The University of Adelaide enjoys a wide range of students from various nationalities and countries studying together. In such a university, maths lawn serves as a good place to interact socially and culturally. The lawns between The Braggs, Molecular Life Sciences, Ingkarni Wardli and the Engineering and Maths Sciences building are the maths lawns. The maths lawns are lined with picnic benches to sit, study and so on. As far as social and cultural activities are concerned, the maths lawns are used for orientation week, hosting bbq’s, all sports club meetings and open days. These are some of the major activities that take place in maths lawns.
ROLE OF LIGHT IN ARCHITECTURE Luminosity deened as “the relative quantity of light” or “relative brightness of something.” In other words luminosity is the amount of light emitted from a certain light source. The understanding of light has evolved over a decade in the human history and has led to most signiicant technological and scientiic achievements. Luminosity, brightness and illumination are related to each other. Luminosity is the quantity of light, illumination refers to the act of supplying light and brightness is the reeection of light that is how an object appears when illuminated. For Example: how bright a star appears from earth is the brightness and the amount of light it emits from its surface refers to luminosity.
The mechanism that serve to distinguish between light emitting and light reeecting objects are largely unknown. It is suggested that luminosity perception implements a separate pathway in the visual system that luminosity constitutes an independent perceptual feature. In order to consider object as being luminous, it is not necessary to have a physical source of light emission.
Artists used halos since a long time as means to create luminosity effects in their paintings. A region painted with a halo surrounding it perceived with greater brightness even if there was no physical light present. Luminosity enhances the presentation of an object and enlightens the objects on which it falls.
Light whether natural or artiicial is one of the most important element in architecture design. Light adds beauty to the design. It is considered as an appreciating and important factor in architecture. Light can either be used for illumination or decorative purpose. Lighting the interiors are essential to carry out day to day operations whereas lighting outside is usually done for decorative and safety reasons. Therefore, it is a task for a designer to make effective use of daylighting. An example of the use of daylight in architecture is the world renowned ‘Church of Light’. Constructed by Japanese architect Tadeo Ando and located on the outskirts of Osaka, Japan. The space of the chapel is deened by light creating a strong contrast between light and solid. It took under a year and a half to build, with completion in 1988 and the materials being reinforced concrete and wood. An article by Zaha Hadid widens the understanding on luminosity. The article deals with the way Zaha Hadid handles light and reeects her imagination regarding the medium of light. Hadid’s understanding of light is evident from her work, as to how she has played with luminosity and that is what makes her creation different from others. Her work plays a major role in architecture
Considering her very rst design of the early Vitra Fire Station in which she has used deconstructive lines in concrete walls that illuminates the ground surface, not only with lighting techniques but she has experimented with the form as well which could be seen in her project of The Phaeno Science Centre which combines both day and artiicial light. She has been successful in establishing a alighting relationship between the building’s exterior and interior which is evident from her design for The Heyder Aliyev Centre, as the building reeects light during the day and at night the interior light ows out of the buildin surface and enhance the geometry. Her design for Nanjimg International Youth Cultural Centre was ing’s closely related to the Phaeno Science Centre in terms of structures and related to Heyder Aliyev Centre in terms of ceiling lights.Conclusively, Hadid had used light as important aspect of architecture and her designs has successively evolved in terms of form and light with each project she has done. Hadid had managed to come up a new luminaire design with her every project
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MOLECULAR SCIENCE
BARR SMITH LIBRARY
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Reeection in architecture
REFLECTION OF LIGHT
Philosophical meaning
The basic meaning of reeection is something that comes back as a response. Reeection can be deened as the bouncing back of light after it obstructs any surface without being absorbed by it. Light ray will be reeected with the same angle with which it is falling on the surface
Philosophically, reeection is the process of reproducing, under the innuence of other things, traces or imprints. Reeective thinking origins reach back centuries to early philosophical work. Reeective practice is viewed as a thought process aimed at understanding and improving. Personal experience innuence reeective practice outcomes. Reeection occurs in different ways, reeection considers social, moral and ethical perspe spectives and has the potential to affect community. Reeection is not only an important aspect of architecture but also is important in our daily life. According to me, it goes parallel with the law of karma that it what you do reeects backs to you.
Reeection has been an important aspect of architecture and has assisted architects in successfully designing skyscrapers. Architects has used re-ection as a principle to design internal as well as external spaces and this has also made a shift in choosing materials. With more emphasis given to designing in considerations to light, glass and metal have been transformed innovatively to create crystalline structures. Considering Mies Van Der Rohe design for the Glass Skyscraper in Berlin, his approach was to use glass mirror effects. As he was using glass he avoided dead surface reeecting too much light, so he broke the facades in little plan so that light can fall on them at different angles. Another example, based on the reeection can be the glass façade at the Elbhilharmonie in Hamburg by Heroz and de Meuron. Due to the curvatures it re-ects the light as bright line and in sunlight it acquires a jewel like shimmer. The famous American architect has been successful in transforming the use of glass to metal in designing skyscrapers. His Eye-catching Guggenheim Museum is evidence of that. It is not only the structural composition that makes it successful but in fact it is the sparkling light qualities of the Titanium sheets used which varies with every cloud and sunbeam.
Following Frank Gehry’s footstep of using titanium sheets, other architects soon adopted this. The National Grand Theatre of China and the Birmingham Department Store are examples of it. The Birmingham Department store is covered with the disc like aluminium structures that reeects light in a realistic way. The Messe Basel New Hall by Herzog and De Meuron introduces a linear pattern of light reeection. The building is oriented towards the sky in such a way that it gives brightness to the building which is in stark contrast to the dark perforations. The aluminium veil has been successful in protecting the South Australian Science Facility against the harsh sunlight by reeecting it. Conclusively, the creation of concave and convex surface as well as the use of appropriate materials like glass and metal has affected the reeection of light adversely, providing more opportunities to architects for experimentation to play with the elements of light like luminosity and reeection.
Exhibition/Pres entation space STORE room
GREEN LIGHT WELL
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seminar room 2
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Meaning Opacity refers to the state of being opaque, in other words it is the state when it is difficult for light to pass through. The term opacity is used for something more unclear or obscure. As far as understanding of light is concerned, light cannot pass through opaque objects usually solid Linguistic deenition Opacity Opaci is the characteristic of being difficult to understand or unclear. In linguistic terms, it is the quality that makes a statement or a problem complex to understand. It could be explained by taking an example of a professor whose lectures are known for ‘opacity’, is going to nd himself in the class of all frustrated students or like the opacity of a novel full of ten-syllable words or a dictionary that doesn't give you any clear or straightforward deenitions Whiteness in Nordic countries The article draws attention upon Scandinavian countries with great buildings and how they resonate scarce light both during winter and summer. Professor Henry Plummer, have carefully studied the daylight phenomena of the Nordic countries and along with his photo journals and brilliant writing depicted the advantages of white surfaces that facilitate the bright rooms.
As of the weather conditions in Nordic countries, architects have played with the white surfaces to maintain a balance between the long and dark winter days. This has been possible as the daylight enters the building from the side rather than top due to lower position of sun creating long shadows. Whiteness has been important aspect while designing buildings in Nordic Countries. There have been some great building like the Denmark’s medieval church whose design approach innuences modern buildings as well. In the church, the daylight enters from three different directions being low from the north emphasizing a black steel cruciix, from south as glancing wash and shower directly behind the altar. Similarly, the Bagaerd Church by Jorn Utzon is based on the white concept and the architect reveals his design approach of providing white walls and ceilings so that he can lig due to limited availability in Denmark and also promake optimum use of the light duces intensity of light which is greater inside than outside.White Diffusion a concept that was introduced by alvar alto by using materials like white painted plaster, white enamelled steel and white linoleum for the Paimio Sanatorium in the 1930’s and achieved a peak at the Nordyjllands art Museum in 1972. H
owever, it is not just use of white in architecture but also how light interacts with the surface creating light patterns which are unique Nordic light approach. The light patterns are not limited to a particular season but in fact the concept range from materials textures to speciic glass features that can change the course of during the course of day and season. Some churches invites light patterns during the day or some at noon. The architecture of space and power of white concept has enabled architects to design more wisely considering the geographical boundaries, weather and materials in mind.
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FINAL MODEL
GLASS ROOF
extruded CONCRETE
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GLASS ROOF STRUCTURE IS USE IN THE MODEL TO GAIN MAXIMUM DAY LIGHT
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BOND COAT PLATERBOARD ORGANIC ADHESIVE CONCRETE SLAB
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FILTRATION MEANING The process of separating two materials is referred to as Filtration and is usually used to separate solid from liquids. The latter that passes through the ltering material is known as ltrate and the medium used for ltering is known as lter. Most light sources emit a broad range of wavelengths that cover the entire visible light spectrum. In many instances, however, it is desirable to produce light that has a restricted wavelength spectrum. This can be easily acc accomplished through the use of specialized lters that transmit some wavelengths and selectively absorb or reeect unwanted wavelengths
PHILOSOPHICAL MEANING In philosophical terms ltration refers to selective presentation or deliberate manipulation of information to make it more acceptable and favourable for its recipient. For example, we can say that the secretary was excellent at ltering her boss’s emails due to his horrible grammar, bad attitude and improper spelling. Therefore, in other words it is known as purity of something.
MEANING IN ARCHITECTURE Le Corbusier, for his skills is listed among the famous architects for playing with the orientation, opening and textures of the building to create a kinetic architecture with the use of daylight. His designs for religious buildings like that of the pilgrimage chapel at Ron champ, the monastery of Sainte Marie da la Tourette, and the Paris church of Saint- Pierre in Firminy reveal individual characteristics that reeects his imagination with the use of light.The spiritual relationship between believers and god has many foundations in the understanding of light. The key verses throughout the bible have led to belief of light being of divine nature. As an artist and an architect, le Corbusier have been successful in creating an exceptional relationship with light which is evident from his buildings as a result of his interaction with colours and light. One of such interaction can be experienced, in the design of Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut at Ron champ, which is based on the principle of continuous circle of solar events.
The dawning sun illuminates the clove of the side of the chapel resulting in turning the red wall even redder. According to Henry Plummer, this reddish morning light is a clear analogy to human birth. The small horizontal cracks of ten centimetres lifts the roof from the wall and enable the light to continue through between east and south of the wall.In La Tourette the light orchestration is more complex and dispersed as compared Ronchamp. The irregular rhythm of light and shadow appears like a music composition. These uent rhythms are aperiodic, based upon intervals of light and transparency that compresses and expand in waves. The highlight of light choreography in La Tourette’s begins with sunset and varies with season to season starting from a small triangle in winter to a large rectangle in summer when the sun reaches it’s maximum power. A beautiful golden lines are witnessed starting from the north wall. The patterns of light at the church of Saint- Pierre at Firminy is at the small Steller window that generates dots of light on the oor which then turns into the waves of lights and these waves fall and rise as per the course of sun. Conclusively, Le Corbusier light techniques emerge as a language to consecrate his buildings. His understanding about the patterns of light and colours gives his designs a poetic touch and are successful to touch human soul.
REPRESENTATION 2 RUHI MADAN A1695655