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Light Shelf harvests natural light, reducing the demand for artificial lighting and lowers energy costs.

Light shelf - Designing Buildings - Share your construction industry knowledge. A light shelf is a passive architectural device used to reflect natural daylight into a building. 'Bouncing' sunlight off a horizontal surface distributes it more evenly and deeply within a space, whereas direct sunlight can cause glare near an opening, whilst leaving dark areas further in.

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dSPACE Studio transformed a 1970s style Chicago residence into a bright, open and stylish home with an expansive 20-foot skylight that presents views of the surrounding neighborhood. Tagged: Windows, Skylight Window Type, and Metal. Photo 5 of 18 in 18 Luminous Homes With Interesting Skylights.

Villa-K is a contemporary hilltop residence taking full advantage of its forested surroundings, designed by Cell Space Architects, located in Nagano, Japan.

Photo via Flickr by BM. “For architects it represents the road not taken: a lyrical machine whose theatricality is the antithesis of the dry functionalist aesthetic that reigned through much of the 20th century.” – Nicolai Ousaroff (The New York Times, “The Best House in Paris,” 8/29/07) Ousaroff’s quote is just the tip of an iceberg that is the famous Maison de Verre on Rue Saint-Guillaume. I have had the opportunity to visit the famous home twice through Columbia University (and my mild…

Completed in 2006 in Dublin, Ireland. The introduction of the luas light rail service along the old harcourt street railway line has resulted in a blurring of private and public space for...