How to bring natural light to your home.
Access to natural daylight has a great impact on our health and favourably affecting our well-being. Maximum use of natural daylight in our homes increases the comfort of life and reduces the need for artificial lighting, reducing electricity costs. The idea of borrowed light is to capture the light from the outside of a home and transport it to the inside places where it’s required. In this article, I would like to present some of these solutions for capturing daylight.
One of the basic examples is using bright neutral colours. They act as the indirect light source and that’s why they will fulfil its role the most effectively in spaces with floor area constrains. The use of high gloss surfaces reflects light even more and increases the brightness of the space.
Solar exposure, as well as artificial light, can be simply borrowed via the glazed wall. Clear glass will transmit the best measure of light into adjacent spaces. To maintain a space private situate the glass above eye-level.
The full-height glass walls offer acoustical but not visual privacy. In cases when there is limited access to exterior windows it might be a necessary choice, but in return for this, our rooms will naturally expand.
Whether they’re clear or frosted there are many ways to incorporate natural daylighting using glass in your home. Glass panels or interior windows aren’t subject to the same weathering and insulation restrictions as exterior so they are less expensive to buy and instal.
Because translucent materials reflect absorb and scatter light they form a great way for borrowing light. Diffuse light is pleasant and limits eyestrain. The wall shown here gathers direct light from an adjacent light-filled bathroom and provides a reflective nature of the bath wall surfaces to diffuse it into the small windowless one.
Translucency can be achieved in a variety of ways. Glass can be sandblasted or acid etched. It can also be textured or laminated. The laminated glass effect is similar to that created by sandblasting but unlike sandblasted glass, it is low-maintenance and less likely to leave fingerprint marks.
Linking spaces using glass doesn’t always have to make sense functionally they can be just connections that make interior atmospheric.
Another alternative and effective way of borrowing light in a home is the stairway. If the stair can be positioned to capture and reflect light from above by tighter fully glazing it or using a skylight it’s even more effective. The combination of glass guard and white walls make a stairway a light source for the surrounding space. A solid wall used here would change this space dramatically.
The use of mirrors is another way thanks to which natural lighting will brighten up your apartment and also optically add additional space.
To make small spaces look larger, you can place large mirrors for wardrobes fronts. It will reflect both natural and artificial light to make a room brighter during the day and night.
Light has a greater effect of a person’s experience within a space than any other architectural design element. As interior designers and architects, we have a responsibility to provide healthy interiors for our occupants. If done with thought, early in the design process, daylighting can contribute to the improved health of a building’s users, creating a nice and healthy atmosphere worth spending the day in.
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