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HS2009 Light and Space-Indoor 15.0 credits

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"Light and Space in the Indoor Context" brings together the two essential aspects of lighting—daylight and artificial light.

A key focus of the course is mastering the ability to design one while considering the influence and impact of the other. This is a fundamental skill for any lighting designer.

The course operates through a project-based approach, where you will apply the theoretical knowledge gained from previous courses to increasingly complex scenarios. Throughout the course you will have the chance to work on different lighting software and measure and experience laboratory settings, but also complete projects by well-known lighting design offices around Stockholm.

At the end of the course, you will deliver your own full lighting design project and its documentation after considering holistically temporality and technology, but also circularity, social responsibility, and environmental consciousness, equipping them to create.

Apart from the Lighting Design Division teachers and tutors, you will meet as part of your educational journey some of the regular guests that take part on this course like the lighting design practitioners Merete Madsen, Andreas Schulz and Michael Immecke.

Daylight, documentation, project-based

Information per course offering

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Termin

Information for Spring 2026 Start 13 Jan 2026 programme students

Course location

KTH Campus

Duration
13 Jan 2026 - 13 Mar 2026
Periods

Spring 2026: P3 (15 hp)

Pace of study

100%

Application code

60147

Form of study

Normal Daytime

Language of instruction

English

Course memo
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Number of places

Min: 5

Target group
Mandatory for TLODM
Planned modular schedule
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Contact

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Course syllabus as PDF

Please note: all information from the Course syllabus is available on this page in an accessible format.

Course syllabus HS2009 (Spring 2026–)
Headings with content from the Course syllabus HS2009 (Spring 2026–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )

Content and learning outcomes

Course disposition

Content’s structure:

Daylight Basics 
  (Concepts, units, tools)

Design Methodology II
 (Process, calculation, rendering)

Technology II 
  (Luminaires, Energy, Control systems)

Room Space Theory 
  (Indoor Scale)

Indoor Lighting Design (project)
  (Planning)

Course contents

  • Indoor lighting design process: methodology and tools
  • Theoretical basis in concept and calculation for indoor lighting
  • Application of tools in a complex design process
  • Full-scale tests and mock-ups
  • Methods for treatment of sustainability, energy, maintenance and economical aspects
  • Presentation techniques and communication skills

Intended learning outcomes

  • Students should gain the required knowledge within indoor lighting design, including the understanding of architectural qualities of indoor spaces' structures and user's needs, and the quantitive technical and regulatory requirements.
  • Students shall transfer the acquired knowledge from previous courses into the indoor lighting design process.
  • Students shall develop a complex lighting design project, from concept to realization, including calculation tools and framing aspects as sustainability, energy and economy. The solution must coordinate daylight conditions on site, electric lighting and control feasibilities.
  • Students shall train and develop skills to work collaboratively in teams and independently reflect over their methodology and results, in order to be able to abstract them from the given context.
  • Students should express a professional attitude in all the phases of the design process and train communication skills.

Literature and preparations

Specific prerequisites

The eligibility as required for the programme, or the equivalent knowledge in Architecture or related field.

Literature

You can find information about course literature either in the course memo for the course offering or in the course room in Canvas.

Examination and completion

Grading scale

A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Examination

  • PROB - Project, 6.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
  • INLA - Workbook, 6.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
  • PROA - Project, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

The course has three examination modules, a workbook (INLA), a daylight project (PROA) and a lighting design project (PROB).

The course evaluation is a combination of design task and workbook grades, which reflect teamwork and individual achievements.

The design task evaluation includes: Vision and Concept, Process, End result, Presentation.

The personal learning process is assessed through the workbook in relation to these critera: Completeness, Structure, Depth of reflections and Research.

Detailed description of assessment methodology is provided at the beginning of each course.

Other requirements for final grade

To receive a final grade for this course, grade E or higher on the workbook (report of lectures, process and reflections) and the lighting design project (process and seminars) is required, as well as a passing grade on the daylight project. 80 % attendance is also required.

Overall course grade is based on grading scale A-F.

Examiner

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Ethical approach

  • All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
  • In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
  • In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further information

Course room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.

Offered by

ABE/Lighting Design

Main field of study

Architecture

Education cycle

Second cycle