by Thomas Overholt Hansen, VELUX Group The 5th VELUX Daylight Symposium had a lot of great moments. A lot of which was documented by some of the participants via twitter. In the welcoming speech of the symposium Per Arnold Andersen of the VELUX Group introduced #DaylightTalk as the hashtag to be used on social media whenever [...]
by Paulo Scarazzato, Prof. Dr. University of São Paulo In recent years, Brazil has experienced an interest growth on questions related to daylighting. Currently, there are five public Brazilian universities are engaged in a research supported by Eletrobras, a mixed economy and open capital stock corporation, with have the Brazilian Federal government as the majority stockholder. [...]
by the VELUX Group “We are dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants”. This quote by Isaac Newton expresses the fact that each generation builds on the intellectual and material legacy of preceding eras. This is also the case in our cities, where the annual rate of new builds is less than 1%, and more [...]
by Dr. Jennifer Veitch, Senior Research Officer at National Research Council of Canada Interest in daylighting and lighting design has never been higher since physiologists discovered a new type of cell in the human eye in 2001. These cells send information about light intensity to the brain centres responsible for controlling circadian rhythms to patterns [...]
by Vellachi Ganesan, Lighting Designer with Arup Singapore What does it really mean to design a healing space? Not a clinical or medical space, but a healing space. This is a question that we recently asked ourselves as we embarked on the design for a community project- the Child Recreation Centre at the new Mae [...]
by Joe Wu, Architect, Hong Kong Collage is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. Spatial collage is based on spatial condition to create new possibilities by reorganization as a spatial generator. As painting of Cubism period artists trying see an object/ things by different angles, spatial collage also try [...]
