By Barbara Szybinska Matusiak, Professor, Department of Architectural Design, Form and Colour Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Windows create many problems, especially in ZE-buildings, said a nano-technology guru during the discussion with me some weeks ago, so why do we still construct traditional windows? View? Light? Air? All those elements can be delivered without windows, he claimed. There are already good solutions for lighting and ventilation without using windows, he said.  Regarding view outdoors the potential is even higher. The view […]

by Christoph Reinhart, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

The Daylighting Handbook I is the first volume in a series of upcoming books on daylighting and other sustainable building design concepts. The book is organized into two parts, Fundamentals and Designing with the Sun. Fundamentals serves as a general introduction to daylighting (chapter 2), its implementation and its daily and seasonal availability (chapter 3). It also explains how light helps us to perceive the world around us and to maintain our circadian […]