"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
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KTH Campus
100%
60147
Normal Daytime
English
Min: 5
Mandatory for TLODM
Please note: all information from the Course syllabus is available on this page in an accessible format.
Course syllabus HS2009 (Autumn 2019–)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)
The eligibility as required for the programme, or the equivalent knowledge in Architecture or related field.
Corrodi, Michelle. Spechtenhauser, Klaus. (2008) Illuminating – natural light in residential architecture.
Cuttle, Christopher. (2003) Lighting by design.
Cuttle, C. (2015). Lighting Design: A Perception-Based Approach, Routledge
Daylight and architecture. Velux Magazine.
DiLaura, Houser, Mistrick & Steffy. (2010) Lighting Handbook, 10th ed, IESNA.
Fontoynont, M. (1999). Daylight Performance of Buildings, Routledge
Lam, William (1992) Perception and lighting as form givers for architecture.
Lam, William (2011) Sunlighting As Formgiver for Architecture.
Plummer, Henry. (2009) The Architecture of Natural Light.
Peter Tregenza et al (2011) Daylighting: Architecture and Lighting Design.
Reinhart, C. (2014) Lighting Handbook, 10th ed, IES
Plus recommended and mandatory literature presented during the course.
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
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.
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.
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.
