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daylight in galleries, why and how Befitting from the minimalistic architectural language of the museum, its extremely limited openings and transparent facades, well protects the museum from the hot external environment, especially from the daylight. Galleries are even placed underground, therefore protection from the daylight is assured. Therefore in designing galler y spaces, the question was ‘how to bring natural light into the galler y spaces’. The galler y spaces follows coherent design guides suggested in the book ‘Manual of Museum Exhibitions’ by Barr y Lord and Maria Piacente. i) Avoiding side lighting to avoid glare and reflection. ii) The obser ved phenomenon of human eyes are attracted to the brightest object in the field of the view, therefore do not allow windows to compete against ar t works. iii) All roof lights should be minimum double glazed or triple glazed, with 13mm air space between glass panels. Some sor t of medium to diffuse light or external glass to be fritted to lower visible light level is highly recommended. iv) Sky-lighting and clerestor y windows can be highly effective visually, but require some means of light control. Design galleries with both passive and mechanised light control systems. v) Mix sky, sun, nor th light well to create interesting and well balanced lit environment. Balance between cold and warm light.
natural light
diffused light, soft lighting The four big permanent galleries are lit with diffused light. They all have skylight with coffered ceiling. When the light intensity drops below the set level, mechanical lights hidden behind the diffuse layer operates. Skylights are filtered through double layers of sand blasted glass,1m deep concrete coffers and linen diffuse layer. Long rectangular galleries have large glazing facade facing the trench galler y. Strong day light is diffused through narrow and tall (2.2 x 9m) trench galler y before providing ver y soft back-lighting to the galler y spaces. This light will lit backside of the sculptures to enhance details of the ar t works, especially Ron Mueck ’s hyperrealism works.
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