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30 September 2019
Daylight levels affect our thermal perception
A pioneering study carried out at EPFL shows that the amount of daylight in a room can influence our thermal comfort and how well we tolerate heat or cold. The findings could be used to improve existing building standards and decrease energy consumption. The study has been published in Scientific ...
27 September 2019
The Daylight Award 2020: call for nominations
The Daylight Award is organised by the non-profit, private charitable foundations, VILLUM FONDEN and VELUX FONDEN from Denmark and VELUX STIFTUNG from Switzerland. It honours and supports daylight research and daylight in architecture, for the benefit of human health, well-being and the environment...
15 September 2019
La Luce Alpina | Exhibition
From 28 September to 1 December 2019 Kunstmuseum St.Gallen With works from: Giovanni Segantini, Dove Allouche, Siegrun Appelt, Philippe Rahm, Patrick Rohner, Not Vital Giovanni Segantini (1858–1899) is one of the most important painters of the late nineteenth century. In his paintings he created ...
28 August 2019
First DLA paper now published
Daylight has many beneficial effects, for example for human health and wellbeing as well as for sustainability. While electric lighting can mimick many characteristics of daylight, it remains yet to be demonstrated that it can reproduce the sum of diverse, positive outcomes associated with daylight...
16 May 2019
TEC21 pays tribute to daylight
“5777 Kelvin” is the colour temperature of sunlight reaching the earth’s surface, but also the enigmatic title of the last TEC21 issue. TEC21 is the leading technical and scientific journal in German-speaking Switzerland for architects, engineers, builders, and all players in the ...
16 May 2019
International Day of Light
Today, light is celebrated worldwide. Initiated by UNESCO, the International Day of Light provides every year a stage for the continued appreciation of light. Activities emphasising the role of light in science, culture and art, education, and sustainable development, and in fields as diverse as ...
15 April 2019
Winter School “Perspectives on Daylight”: participants share their impressions on video
For one week 30 international students from a variety of disciplines received inputs on daylight from 13 experts – including 10 Daylight Academy members – of different fields, namely environment, health, architecture and technology. Through dialogue with the experts, the participants deepened ...
25 March 2019
Linda Geddes’ book “Chasing the Sun” reviewed by Anna Wirz-Justice
“It’s about time! In the dark days of winter, the science writer Linda Geddes has published a timely book about the importance of sunlight for our health and well-being. She has travelled far and wide and read deeply, to translate the new research findings of the last two decades into a ...
21 February 2019
Public panel discussion about daylight and urban densification
The Daylight Academy working group “Daylight & Green Cities” is organising a public event in Zurich on 12 March 2019 (19:00-21:30), together with the HSR (Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil) and the Architects Mäder+Mächler. It will consist in a panel discussion about urban ...17 January 2019
New European Standard for Daylight of Buildings (EN 17037)
Daylight is an essential source of illumination for humans. We spend up to 90% of our time indoors and part of these indoor spaces are inadequately supplied with daylight. Daylight supply means more than just good vision: the influence of daylight on general well-being is being perceived more and ...
07 January 2019