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A 5 page paper examining several buildings and their use of light. Architects that have chosen to use natural light to enhance the aesthetics or function of their buildings quickly find favor with those who will be using the building in its final form. Several designers have managed to use natural light as a design element, enabling users to take advantages of the benefits of natural light in the human environment. The purpose here is to discuss light as material, light as shape and light as color. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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There were no windows to the outside, and certainly no opportunity to gain any air that had not been filtered and "conditioned" before reaching the people inside. Breaks
during the conference were frequent as participants tired easily under the harsh fluorescent overhead lights and sought to step outside, if for only a few moments, into the bright sunshine
that was avoided inside the building at all costs. Architects that have chosen to use natural light to enhance the aesthetics or function
of their buildings quickly find favor with those who will be using the building in its final form. Several designers have managed to use natural light as a design
element, enabling users to take advantages of the benefits of natural light in the human environment. The purpose here is to discuss light as material, light as shape and
light as color. Light as Material Several architects have chosen to use natural light in place of other materials they could have used
instead. One example is Louis Kahns Exeter Library in Exeter, New Hampshire. The buildings interior features the intersection of two perpendicular walls above, which are open to traffic
below the point where they end. The placement of the walls invite the individual to look up, to take note of the space above him as well as that
surrounding him on all horizontal sides. Variations of light within each of the quadrants create far greater visual interest than could be possible without it.
Another example of light as material is the Angel Abbey Library by Alvaro Aalto. A high, open interior space features an arc of glass near its
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