Illuminating Natural Light in Residential Architecture

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Introduction Reina Darker Living. How Artificial Light Teaches Us to Love Daylight Well Lighted? On the Status Quo of the Hunger for Light Irreplaceable Daylight The Call for Brightness Habits and Positive Attributions Artificial Light The Myth of Light The Myth of Glass Overexposures Modern Living. Light-flooded Houses Modern = Bright Hygiene through Light and Housing Reform Modern Architecture, Modern Living Equal Heights for Equal People Floor Plan and Typology: Into the Light Increasing Density and Lighting: Rows, Blocks, and Towers In Healthy Light: Balconies, Loggias, Terraces Continuing to Build with Distinction Light, Sight, Space. Experiencing Light, Perceiving Space, and Looking Out Light and Sight Between Inside and Outside Looking Out: Information and Contemplation The Window’s Loss of Importance The Spatial Box: Discretion in Muted Light The Framed View BursBursting the Box: New Spaces of Experience FlowFlowing Spaces: Visual Boundlessness and Clarifying Brightness The Form of Windows and the Interior The Mise-en-Scène of Prospects Last Stop: Glass House Rehabilitating Darkness From the Form to the Shell New Pleasure in Transparency: “The Un-Private House” Semitransparent Shells: Veiled Views and the Diffusion of Light Metamorphoses of the Facade Reveiling the Unveiled: Protection from Sun and Prying Eyes Multiple Layers Shown in a Good Light Illuminating: Seeing Well and Seeing Comfortable Qualities of Natural Light and Rules of Thumb for Design Good Light Planning? The Given Situation and Local Conditions: Designing the Exterior The Climate Zone The Building’s Surroundings The Sun’s Orientation The Building Volumes and Facades Quantitative Objectives Interior Design and Functional Lighting The Composition of Natural Light Terms in Lighting Technology The Distribution of Luminance and Transitions Rules of Thumb for Interior Design The Height and Depth of the Room The Size and Position of Windows Vertical or Horizontal Openings Shadows of Other Buildings Increasing and Optimizing Light Light from One Side Light from More than One Side Qualitative Objectives Interior Design and Seeing Comfortably Light for Information and Wayfinding Directing Light and Shading Modeling Space Reducing Contrast Modulating Diffuse Brightness Glare Control Disability Glare from Excessive Luminances Discomfort Glare from Excessive Luminance Contrast Silhouette Effect Solar Control and Directing Sunlight Single-Skin Facades Double-Skin and Multiple-Skin Facades Daylight as Design Medium Lighting Effects: Beyond Seeing Comfortably. Well-Being, Mood, Experience The Consequences of Flooding with Light A Loss of Homeyness? Physiological and Psychological Comfort One’s Own Four Walls Buffer Zones and Transitional Spaces The Veiled Gaze The Hiding Place The Island of Light The Home as a Place of Memory Lighting and the Experience of Space A Play with Lights and a Theater of Materials Best of: Eleven Masters of Natural Light Landmark Concepts of Light Le Corbusier: Purifying Light Richard Neutra: Invigorating Light Frank Lloyd Wright: Vitalizing Light Alvar Aalto: Ephemeral Light Louis I. Kahn: Purist Light Luis Barragán: Meditative Light Tadao Ando: Spiritual Light Jean Nouvel: Illusionistic Light Toyo Ito: Atmospheric Light SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa: Suggestive Light Steven Holl: Animating Light Selected Bibliography Illustration Credits On the Authors Acknowledgments