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Espace & Lumière: Unité d'Enseignement M | Space & Light: Teaching Unit M

Marilyne Andersen, Bernard Paule
2011
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The UE M course aims to improve the students’ ability to see, to plan and to design light in architecture. The purpose is to consider light as a resource, a raw material, and to understand how it can be used to emphasize architectural concepts. The students were asked to adopt a sustainable approach focusing on comfort and energy concerns. The following topics were adressed : daylighting optimization, artificial lighting, design and testing of specific day- and electric lighting systems.

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Marilyne Andersen, Bernard Paule
2011
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Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/21bd3776-dc3c-47fe-9496-f2bf3fc11f54

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Lighting

Lighting or illumination is the deliberate use of light to achieve practical or aesthetic effects. Lighting includes the use of both artificial light sources like lamps and light fixtures, as well as natural illumination by capturing daylight. Daylighting (using windows, skylights, or light shelves) is sometimes used as the main source of light during daytime in buildings. This can save energy in place of using artificial lighting, which represents a major component of energy consumption in buildings.

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Architectural lighting design is a field of work or study that is concerned with the design of lighting systems within the built environment, both interior and exterior. It can include manipulation and design of both daylight and electric light or both, to serve human needs. Lighting design is based in both science and the visual arts. The basic aim of lighting within the built environment is to enable occupants to see clearly and without discomfort.

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An electric light, lamp, or light bulb is an electrical component that produces light. It is the most common form of artificial lighting. Lamps usually have a base made of ceramic, metal, glass, or plastic, which secures the lamp in the socket of a light fixture, which is often called a "lamp" as well. The electrical connection to the socket may be made with a screw-thread base, two metal pins, two metal caps or a bayonet mount.

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