by Shaun Weston Nystrom, VELUX Group

The VELUX Daylight Academic Forum is a unique and exclusive event which is held every 2 years and is dedicated to PhD students working with daylight research. This year, 23 PhD students from 10 countries will meet to share their current research projects with a panel of other fellow PhD students and a panel of leading scientific experts from around the world.

The Academic Forum is held in connection with the biennial VELUX Daylight Symposium. The aim […]

We are pleased to present the official programme and speakers for the 7th VELUX Daylight Symposium at Café Moskau in Berlin on 3-4 May 2017.

Over two days, attendees will engage on the theme “Healthy & Climate-Friendly Architecture – from knowledge to practice” with presentations from leading researchers, as well as experiences and viewpoints from the engineering and architectural practice including policy makers. The symposium will focus on the use of daylight to create buildings that promote human health and well-being, and […]

by Shaun Weston Nystrom

Buildings are beautiful when you feel well in them. With proven abilities to revitalize and energize, focusing on space and daylight in growing urban environments has never been so important. How can we re-imagine aging structures and develop healthy functional communities?

The spaces we live in can create possibilities for healthy and productive lifestyles. By increasing our freedom to move and grow, architects have the tools to create a vital escape, beyond the functional, for occupants. “Designing architecture […]