Digital controls promise ease, efficiency and intelligence. Ease in the form of programmable scenes and automation; efficiency through sensor network feedback that helps reduce energy consumption; intelligence in the form of fixture performance monitoring and measurement.
Light is one of the primary conditions for life; its energy feeds every living thing. Circadian design attempts to realign the built environment with the human physiological response to light that drives our sleep and waking cycles. This article provides a critical review of Circadian Design.
Litelab sat down with Brian Balderston, Exhibition Production Manager at the Queens Museum to discuss the museum’s relationship to its community, the opportunities and challenges of working in the historical World's Fair building, and strategies of exhibition and lighting design
We describe how flexibility and intelligence can be introduced into architecture, coordinating various building services and trades within an aesthetic continuum sensitive to materials, form and space.
