skylight
Synonym:
top light,
roof window,
A skylight refers to a window installed in the roof to admit natural light from above. Windows installed in the roof may also be called skylights.
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01│Antoni Gaudí: A “Sensible Architect”
…in glass or equipped with large glass windows and skylights did not immediately spread beyond monumental buildings, such as railway terminals, government halls, and banks. Glass windows also offered b…
11 Dec 2024
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The Ingot Coffee Shop: Building as a Mass of Glass
…arious joints. For example, he used it to set the skylight glass at the Kinoshita Clinic (1979), Stainless Steel House with Light Lattice (1980), and Silver Building (1981). He even developed a method…
04 Oct 2024
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“Window Behaviorology” is exhibited at VILLUM Window Collection, Denmark
Windows and daylight influence our behavior. This is unpacked in VILLUM Window Collection’s new exhibition curated by Japanese architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow), who has devoted many yea…
05 Apr 2024
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The Windows of Hiroshi Hara’s Awazu House: Spaces of Light Illuminating the Darkness
…Inner core. (A passageway and living space with a skylight and high ceiling. A semi-outside space with a form unique to the dwelling.) 2: Objects are placed based around an axis of symmetry. 3: Has th…
26 Apr 2024
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Gerrit Rietveld – A sense of space
…roof in order to place horizontal strips of small skylight windows. Not only would these high placed windows bring extra light into the interior but also would it enhance the spacious feeling. As a bo…
27 Mar 2023
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Windows of the Aichi University of the Artsby Junzo Yoshimura and Akio Okumura:The Concrete Science of Living with Nature
…ich is drawn in between the ceiling beams through skylights that are tilted northward and shielded from the direct southern sun by fins. These skylights were installed with operable louvers that allow…
19 Jan 2024
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The Prince Karuizawa: The Materiality of Kiyoshi Seike’s Windows
…oors of the vestibule, and it is illuminated by a skylight that appears to split its sloped ceiling in two, straight down the middle. Because the wall at the far end of the skylight is aligned with th…
12 Oct 2023
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Issue 9: The Windy County Office—Yilan County Hall (Atelier Zo)
…ward from that, even in its shaping. ,,Meanwhile, skylights are used to bring light in to segments of the building not facing its hall or the outside. One space under a skylight is painted completely …
31 Oct 2023
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Double Vision
…s blurring of windows and screens. Installed as a skylight, Mitsubishi’s Misola panel simulates daylight by programming alternating cool and warm projections. In a ceiling cavity of 120 millimeters, L…
06 Jul 2023
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A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)
…ng, as we were here, with the curved ceiling, the skylight, and the veranda. It helped in balancing daylight, views, and privacy. Many clients don’t understand at first why we need to go through this …
24 May 2023
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Arne JacobsenHarby Elementary School
The atrium hall with paintings on the wall in Harvey Elementary School on the island of Funen. Three windows which straddle the border between the roof and the wall take the northern skylight into the…
13 Jan 2023
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[Extended till Summer 2023]Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan at the VILLUM Window Collection, Denmark
…e VKR Group in 1941 and developed the first VELUX skylight in 1942. VKR Holding A/S owns the museum, which is located in the VKR Group’s first headquarters in Copenhagen (Søborg). Read more at http://…
29 Aug 2022
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Former Kyoto Prefectural Tea House/Viewing window for Uji tea
…classes as the Uji tea dojo “Takumi no Yakata.” A skylight is provided at the top of an alcove that protrudes from the wall. This window is called the “viewing window” and is used to assess the tea le…
08 Jul 2022
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Hayashi Grape Labo/Greenhouse Window
…scat becomes reddish-purple. Side windows and the skylight are opened, whereas temperature and humidity are controlled by incorporating outside air. The side windows have been modified such that nine …
04 Feb 2022
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Terunobu Fujimori｜001: The Advent of Magical Light-Transmitting Surfaces, Glass Doors of the Hirano Residence
…”]—rather overdramatically compared to English’s “skylights”—reflect in their name the gratefulness that people at the time felt for the single panes of glass. It was with the subsequent step, the thi…
09 Dec 2021
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Rushing Along the Nile: Egypt and the Nile
…d at a small hut on the rooftop with a fully open skylight on its ceiling. On its inner side is a carving of a mummy laid out on a bed. There is also a hole opened on its floor that seems to suck one&…
10 Dec 2020
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A Conversation with Mario Botta
… these small windows in turn become fireplaces or skylights linked to the staircase… MB: Yes. As I said, the house is a shelter, but it also involves what I call the ‘living rights’ that civilization…
17 Nov 2020
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Rei Naito: Mirror Creation
…al light streaming in through the glass walls and skylights in a space designed by SANAA. The window and the other works displayed in this exhibition employ openings and reflections to create intersec…
02 Nov 2020
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Movie “A City of Columns”
…ons are fully furnished. The landlord changes the skylights and provides the well bucket. In Osaka, properties are unfurnished, rented as is. The renter must provide the fittings.” This “naked rental”…
03 Aug 2020
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A Conversation with Gigon / Guyer
… closed, with the light coming through industrial skylights in the sawtooth roof. The windows are exceptional elements allowing visitors to look outside and orientate themselves while circulating thro…
17 Jun 2020
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Windows in Photography: Conversations with Iwan Baan, Takashi Homma and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
…ing. It is a duplex type apartment and there is a skylight above the top of the stairs. On rainy days, I hear beautiful sounds of rain falling onto the skylight. I love the sounds, even though I know …
09 Apr 2020
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Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan Part 3
… visible space. ,,As one would expect there was a skylight in the room. Bright light flowed through the skylight, the edges of which formed geometrical shapes. ,,Children and the elderly came one afte…
19 Jul 2017
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Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan Part 2
…e sweet chai tea, my eye was caught by the bright skylight in the ceiling. The chimney from the stove was sticking out through it. I thought that the skylight, which could be closed and opened with a …
28 Jun 2017
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Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan, Part 1
…n the room. The only light came pouring through a skylight. I understood that this place, that appeared as if it were an altar, was the most important place in the house, as I stared at the tobacco sm…
31 May 2017
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Breathing in the Desert: Yazd, Iran
…ne to breathe in the desert. ,,I found homes with skylights bored into their centers not only in Takht-e Soleymān or Turpan, but also in homes belonging to Tajiks (an Iranian ethnic group) in Tashqurq…
01 Oct 2019
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Interview with Tom Emerson, 6a architects
…e through gaps in lateral concrete beams and from skylights overhead. There’s light that flows in from the side. In this way, every room has light from the top and light from the side, with a lot from…
22 Apr 2019
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Ch.1 The Battle for Realism
…lay in the skilful use of a series of windows and skylights. The images were in fact painted on both sides of a great transparent screen (around 14 x 22 metres) which would be illuminated from various…
28 Mar 2019
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America (2)
French and German Traditions The French who had settled Quebec to trade fur descended south along the Mississippi River and founded New Orleans in Louisiana, while Germans in Pennsylvania settled area…
28 Feb 2017
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Part 2: Jo-an
…furo or portable hearth) ; and a tsukiage-mado (a skylight built into the sloping ceiling to provide light and ventilation) installed above the kyakuza (a guest’s seat). ,,The tsukiage-mado does…
10 Aug 2018
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Architectural Intention behind Technology
….” So it was a big flat floor plate with a lot of skylights. There were hot spots everywhere (which is an environmental no-no). He used both passive and active systems to move the heat flows around to…
27 Sep 2016
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Part 4: Postmodern Windows that Symbolize Liberation
…tural light that flows through a glass ceiling (a skylight). This is the center of the entire “Fragrant Hills Hotel” grounds. ,,,Though Pei has used many atriums in his designs in America, since the s…
10 Apr 2018
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Thinking about Windows through Photography
…ility into the making of architecture. Homma: The skylight in the architect-designed apartment that I live in has clearly been designed to be nothing other than a light-catcher, but what I like is the…
17 Dec 2014
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Part 1: Apertures for Light
…nmark’s second largest city, Aarhus. The crescent skylight that is borne successively into the sawblade shaped ceiling creates a sense of rhythm and elation, giving a sense of friendliness and liberat…
20 Sep 2017
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Part 3: The Widely Variant Windows of Modern Chinese Architecture
…o the large window one sees when they enter and a skylight that seems to stitch together the space between the walls of the building. The available space is divided up into sections with this large op…
08 Mar 2018
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Hiroshi Nakamura Windows and Affection
…cts the design of a window. The house has a large skylight and a lightwell through which the sunlight drops down. The rooms receive light brought in from the top, and the wall below the skylight bulge…
19 Aug 2013
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Vol. 0: Windows from the Perspective of Contrastive Etymology
…kazarimado, “ornamental window”], “天窓” [tenmado, “skylight”], etc.). It is also worth nothing that there are windows such as so-called “French windows” that represent a return to the prototypical wind…
28 Mar 2018