The Deliberation on Daylighting

摘要

The concept of daylighting isn't necessarily a new idea: Before the invention of electric light, the incorporation of day-lighting was a necessity for those in the business of building design and construction. Along with Thomas Edison's convenient discovery came a whole host of new design possibilities that steered professionals away from the need to design a building around the sun. But now, nearly 130 years later, we're getting back to basics... or are we? Most daylighting designers and experts agree: The concept of today's daylighting design is innova- tive, distinct, and unlike notions of the past. Even as recently as just five years ago, Joel Loveland, director of Seattle's BetterBricks Daylighting Lab and associate professor of architecture at Seattle's University of Washington, remembers when conversation about daylight-ing revolved around electric lighting controls. "There was very little discussion about bringing the daylight into the building. It was all about controlling the electric light," he explains.