LIGHT STUDY: LUMINOSITY
RUHI MADAN A1695655
CONTENTS 1. MEASURED PLAN 2. ELEVATIONS 3. SHADOWS IN SUMMER 4. SHADOWS IN WINTER 5. GROUND VIEWS 6. AMBIENT VIEWS 7. ACCESS AND MOVEMENT 8. ACTIVITIES 9. LUMINOSITY
MEASURED SITE PLAN
ELEVATIONS
SHADOWS IN SUMMER
DECEMBER 22
9:00 A.M
12:00 P.M
3:00 P.M
SHADOWS IN WINTER
9:00 A.M
JUNE 22
12:00 P.M
3:00 P.M
GROUND VIEWS
3D VIEWS
AERIAL VIEWS
AMBIENT LIGHT DAY TIME
NIGHT TIME
ACCESS
AND • The site can be accessed from Victoria drive and from road. • It can also be easily accessed from the hub central. • The movement across the site can be between the Braggs building, Ingkarni Wardi, Barr Smith Library, Santos Maths and Engineering and Molecular Life science Building.
MOVEMENT
ACTIVITIES
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.
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.
ROLE OF LIGHT IN ARCHITECTURE 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