4000 BRIGHT IDEAS In almost 4,000 competition entries over the past ten years, the participants in the International VELUX Award have developed “more ideas than we can imagine” (Omar Rabie) about the use of daylight in architecture. While some students submitted rather straightforward building designs, others strove to achieve the impossible in their submissions, and bring daylight where it had never been before. Within this vast collection of ideas, some themes proved to be particularly inspiring to the participants, prompting them to be considered in the projects more often than others. The following pages display some of these themes, illustrated by selected prize-winning projects and Honourable Mentions from the International VELUX Award. A B C D
Daylight underground Daylight and materials Adaptive building envelopes Daylight and perception
E Domestic daylight F Urban daylight G Storing daylight.
Selected themes (further information on p. 13–15) 7