LIGHT STUDY REPRESENTATION 2 RUHI MADAN A1695655
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THE HISTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURE IS THE HISTORY OF THE STRUGGLE FOR LIGHT. LE CORBUSIER
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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.
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
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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 dierent ways, reeection considers social, moral and ethical perspe spectives and has the potential to aect 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.
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Reeection in architecture
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 his has also made a shift in choosing materials. With more emphasis given to designing in considerations to light, glass and metal have been ransformed 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 n 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 compoition 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.
REPRESENTATION 2 RUHI MADAN A1695655