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Daylit stairs in the "Arc", a northside campus building that once housed Architecture at UCB. Here, daylight naturally reinforces circulation patterns in the building. As we will see in a survey of campus buildings, older buildings are filled with useful daylighting lessons. |
Welcome to the nascent WWW site for UC Berkeley's Arch. 245: Daylighting a graduate seminar in the Department of Architecture. Various aspects of this course have been taught in previous seminars as long ago as 1988 and as workshops for the Pacific Energy Center in San Francisco. Earlier offerings carried the title Daylighting Analysis using Physical Models and the course does indeed retain the use of physical models as a vehicle for discovering and exploring patterns in architectural daylighting. This
course explores qualities of daylight with attention to understanding the physical and perceptual mechanisms that shape our
experience of daylight. We will use three dimensional models as a tool for
the analysis of daylighting in buildings. The distribution of
natural light in an architectural space is a particularly complex process
that defies realistic
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Regarding this WWW site |
This time around I am using the seminar as a vehicle for exploring WWW media and their use as a conduit for the distribution of material to students. Students will submit their class work using web media as well. As explained in class we will work on using this site as a central organizing element for the course. By its nature this site will be an example of distributed authorship. It should be an interesting exercise. Updates soon for 2007. |
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numerical analysis. In contrast to the
complexity of a computer simulation,
physical models offer a practical
tool for the investigation of light in space. Well suited to the
skills of an architect, this technique can be used at all stages of the
architectural design process. Models can predict a design's
performance in quantitative detail and provide immediate visual
information for assessment of qualitative issues. Student work will
include the construction and analysis of lighting models using real and
simulated skies. The course will examine current work by LBNL's
Windows and Daylighting Group, the daylighting resources of PG&E's
recent Pacific Energy Center, and use the Building Science Lab's Sky
Simulator facility. Testing procedures will include the use of
automated data acquisition systems and data reduction using
microcomputer-based methods.
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[ SYLLABUS | HANDOUTS | EXERCISES | STUDENTS | DISCUSSION | LINKS | WHAT's NEW ] This
WWW sIte is a
class resource for the Spring 2002 session Comments
to Cris Benton at crisp@socrates.berkeley.edu
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