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2. Daylighting (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Light shelves are an effective way to enhance the lighting from windows on the equator-facing side of a structure, this effect being obtained by placing a white or reflective metal light shelf outside the window. [19] Usually the window will be protected from direct summer season sun by a projecting eave.

3. North light (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   These properties make it the natural light of choice in certain styles of architecture, [1] painting [2] and photography. [3] In addition, the cool colour of north light has been studied for its effect on our perception of art in galleries and museums. South of the equator (in the Southern Hemisphere), the same characteristics are seen in south ...

4. Oculus (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   An oeil-de-boeuf (French: [œj.də.bœf]; English: "bull's eye"), also œil de bœuf and sometimes anglicized as ox-eye window, is a relatively small elliptical window, typically for an upper storey, and sometimes set in a roof slope as a dormer, or above a door to let in natural light. These are relatively small windows, traditionally oval.

5. Daylighting - Wikipedia

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   Daylighting (architecture), use of windows for indirect lighting; Daylighting (intersections), improving road visibility at intersections; Daylighting (streams), restoration of a previously buried watercourse; Daylighting (tunnels), opening a transportation tunnel

6. Clerestory - Wikipedia

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   In architecture, a clerestory (/ ˈ k l ɪər s t ɔːr i / KLEER-stor-ee; lit. ' clear storey ', also clearstory, clearstorey, or overstorey; from Old French cler estor) is a high section of wall that contains windows above eye-level. Its purpose is to admit light, fresh air, or both.

7. Bay window - Wikipedia

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   A canted oriel window in Lengerich, Germany. A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room. It typically consists of a central windowpane, called a fixed sash, flanked by two or more smaller windows, known as casement or double-hung windows.

8. Architectural lighting design - Wikipedia

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   The predominantly daylit auditorium of the Viipuri Municipal Library in the 1930s. The purpose of architectural lighting design is to balance the characteristics of light within a space to optimize the technical, the visual and, most recently, the non-visual components [6] of ergonomics with respect to illumination of buildings or spaces.

9. Lee III Hall of Clemson University - Wikipedia

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   The design of the large window walls which allow for natural light to enter the building minimizes the need for light during the day. [1] The 42 geothermal walls use the natural temperature of the earth to maintain the temperature inside the building. [2] The building creates natural ventilation through its mechanical windows.