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SUMMARY:Designing with Daylight: Incentives\, Challenges and Research Pers
 pectives
DTSTART:20090511T123000
DTSTAMP:20260510T135138Z
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DESCRIPTION:Professeur Marilyne Andersen\nAbstract\nDaylighting\, or more 
 generally lighting\, is one of the fundamental components of the built env
 ironment. In addition to revealing and structuring volumes\, producing vis
 ual effects\, and providing character to a space\, it must adequately resp
 ond to our needs for visual comfort\, for a connection to the outside worl
 d\, and for a healthy environment. Lighting must also be carefully planned
  to be ecologically viable.\nIn terms of a building’s environmental impa
 ct\, the potential for saving energy using daylight is undisputable. Build
 ings represent 40% of total energy use in the US\, and about a quarter to 
 40% of that energy is generally dedicated to lighting. In addition\, caref
 ul management of daylight can help to increase solar gains in winter and d
 ecrease them in summer\, allowing significant reductions in cost and energ
 y use for warming and cooling. On the other hand\, numerous scientific stu
 dies have demonstrated that human productivity and well-being might be pos
 itively affected by the availability of daylight (if properly controlled) 
 and access to a view.\nIn response to the increasing incentive to design b
 uildings that take full advantage of daylighting\, research is being condu
 cted at MIT in areas ranging from innovative design tools and emerging met
 rics in daylight simulation to the in-depth analysis of light-redirecting 
 materials and the effects of (day)light on human health. From a variety of
  perspectives\, these efforts aim at increasing the amount of natural ligh
 t and solar radiation usable in buildings\, thereby reducing energy consum
 ption and improving occupant comfort\, health and space quality. An overvi
 ew of these new research areas will be presented during this talk.\n\nBio\
 nMarilyne Andersen is an Assistant Professor in the Building Technology Gr
 oup of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning since summer 2004. Trai
 ned as a physicist at EPFL\, she went on to specialize in daylighting and 
 completed her PhD at the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory afte
 r having spent a year as a Visiting Scholar in the building technologies d
 epartment of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. She 
 has been awarded the Mitsui Career Development Professorship in July 2008 
 and will become an Associate Professor in July 2009.  \nHer inter-discipli
 nary research interests on the use and optimization of daylight in buildin
 gs led her to work across the boundaries of architecture\, physics and env
 ironmental concerns. 
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