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Arch. 245: Daylighting is an exercise-based seminar. As explained in the first class, it is my desire to provide you with ample opportunity for concrete experience, reflective observation, and active experimentation in addition to abstract conceptualization. |
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Exercise
8: Dynamic Effects Exercise |
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Exercise
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Source Qualities Exercise |
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Exercise
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Windows by Decade |
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Exercise
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Illuminance Log |
This exercise asks students to experience, describe, and finally measure illuminance in at least 15 spaces that they encounter during the course of your routine in a single day.
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Exercise 4: Two-Hour Model Exercise
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Using Sam Davis' office in Wurster Hall as a vehicle, this
exercise explores what might be learned from sketch models:
'quick and dirty' efforts limited in time and scope. This
exercise has two parts: 1) a sketch model completed by the POC modeling groups and due at the end of
a single class period, and 2) an
individual model completed in less than two hours and after one week.
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Exercise
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A pocket size version of this list is available in MS Word format. |
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Exercise
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The
Proof-of-Concept exercise asks students, in groups of four, to
construct a daylighting model representing an existing space. The
general idea is that this then allows apprentice daylighting model
builders to compare observations, photographs, and measurements
of the model to their counterparts in full scale. This is a great
way to temper daylighting modeling skills and is perhaps the most
valuable exercise in the class. Part 2 of the project asks
students to modify and retest their space.
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Exercise 1:
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The
first exercise begins with a sketch of a hypothetical space in relatively
simple daylighting conditions. During a one week period, students
sketch the space as they believe it will appear under an overcast
sky, build a quick model of the space, observe the model in
different settings, photograph the model, estimate the
distribution of light within the model, measure the model, modify
the model, and finally, repeat the estimate / measure cycle --
whew. The exercise provides a microcosmic preview of more detailed
exercises to come.
Sectional
and perspective views of the hypothetical chapel space provided by Chaz
Ehrlich, a former student. These are computer simulations of light
distribution created using the RADIANCE program. Are aspects of these
images counterintuitive? The perspective view is linked to a larger image. |
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Summaries of student exercises from:
The Spring 2004 iteration
of Arch. 245
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This
project asks student to invent and apply a method for conveying
the change of daylight over time. All forms of media are
fair game in this exercise.
The
assignment involves an informal exploration of the qualities of
light available from the sky, the sun, and the
reflection/transmission of exterior surfaces. Your challenge is
to document ten different lighting characters (within the model)
by exposing the model to a series of different luminous
environments. 
This
project investigates window design over the course of one and a
half centuries through reviewing examples of the art as found on the UC Berkeley
campus. Each student will document eight windows from different
decades. 
We
have developed our list of forty qualities and it is available
for your use. remember that this assignment is a great learning
experience -- fun even -- if you look for these qualities
throughout the assignment period. Don't wait to the last minute.
