by Jens Christoffersen, VELUX Group

LumeNet 2014 is a workshop for PhD research students of the art and science of lighting. In line with previous events, such as the VELUX Daylight Academic Forum in Lausanne (2011) and Copenhagen (2013), the LumeNet workshop in Sheffield (2012), and the CIE PhD students and young researchers workshop in Paris (2013).

The LumeNet 2014 workshop in Berlin, Germany, at Technische Universität Berlin – will focus on providing time for review and discussions of research projects. As many as 30 individual PhD […]

by Jakob Markvart, Danish Building Research Institute, Aalborg University, Denmark

The aim of this project was to demonstrate how the integrating transparent thin-film PV in glazed facades in building with large glass areas influences the users’ perception of the daylight in the room and the view to the outside. Panels with various patterns were constructed representing façade-inte­grated thin-film, both for collecting solar energy, to filter the daylight and reduce solar loads in the room. Four different dummy thin-film panels (see picture) were […]

by Jens Christoffersen, VELUX Group

Daylight-Award 2014

The Daylight-Award 2014 goes to Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa from SANAA Architects in Tokyo, who are also holders of the Pritzker prize. At the Rolex Learning Center, daylight plays a key role both inside and out. The Learning Center was built in 2010 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). The radical attempt to create an innovative educational setting turns the building into what is virtually a walk-in sculpture […]