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This chapter divides the topic into two major groups: artificial which looks at typical lighting installations and natural, which looks at how daylight enters our buildings. Artificial light can be controlled by on/off switches but also at source in terms of the colour and light intensity. Natural light cannot be controlled at source but there are various ways of adjusting the amount of daylight entering the building. Location and orientation of the building are fundamentally important to the designer for these adjustments to be designed.
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Sir Henry Bessemer (1813–1898) was an English engineer, inventor, and businessman. Bessemer's name is chiefly known in connection with the Bessemer process for the manufacture of steel.
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Sir Alastair Pilkington (1920–1995) and his associate Kenneth Bickerstaff, both of Great Britain, developed the world's first commercially successful manufacture of high-quality flat glass using their float glass process.
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Mario Botta (born 1943) is a Swiss architect. His designs tend to include a strong sense of geometry, often being based on very simple shapes, yet creating unique volumes of space.
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Sully, A. (2024). Lighting Concept. In: Interior Design: Conceptual Basis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51410-4_7
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