The lighting atrium of Louis Kahn’s Exeter College Library, the dome dome of the Roman Pantheon, and the cross in Tadao Ando’s Church of Light also highly praised the opportunity of cooperation between light and architecture with the results.
▲ Night View of Hangzhou National Edition Museum (by Fang Fang) Architectural Design: Amateur Studio © So what we are currently seeing is a magical era, where theory and practice are decoupled, and there is also a contradiction between material abundance and spiritual weakness
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On the other hand, discussions about new technologies tend to focus on scientific and technological aspects, while the aesthetic trend and philosophical thinking brought about by new technologies overlook the spiritual needs generated by social development.
However, with the maturity of artificial light technology today, there are few discussions on the relationship between artificial light and space, and between artificial light and architecture.
Architects such as Siza, Balagan, Cobb, and Baeza all have their own unique expertise in utilizing light.
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Louis Kahn said: “The soul of space is light”; Tadao Ando believes that “it is more important than anything to really understand architecture, not through the media, but through their own five senses to experience space.” Steven Holl also mentioned in his design practice that we should create a rich experience by designing multi-level, multi-functional and multi-element spaces.
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Due to technological limitations, the era in which these masters lived mostly focused on discussing the relationship between natural light and space, as well as architecture.
▲ Night View of Hangzhou National Edition Museum (by Fang Fang) Architectural Design: Amateur Studio © Wang Dachou, on the one hand, during the Great Leap Forward period of architecture in our country, a large number of internationalist style buildings were rapidly built, and brought a large number of easily operated points, lines, and surfaces to form the media screen of the city’s current status of lighting.
© Zeng Jianghe looked beyond the scope of special lighting design to a broader world, and the architect’s thinking on light was more unrestrained.
By utilizing elements such as light, materials, colors, and sound, the space presents different appearances at different times and environmental conditions, stimulating users’ curiosity and desire to explore.
Although light is unpredictable, it can be said to be one of the most important souls of architecture.
In the 7132 Thermal Baths project, Zumtuo set an amazing overhanging gap above the interior Gneiss wall, making the light freely fall on the Gneiss texture, blurring the boundaries between the interior and the exterior.
In the Klaus Brothers Church project, the process of building a slanted light from above is metaphorically referred to as a symbolic significance of obtaining new life.
