Daylight symposium
Where knowledge meets practice
Daylight Symposium is a biennial conference presented by VELUX, bringing together a unique community of architects, researchers, and other building industry professionals to accelerate and promote the exchange of knowledge on the potential of daylight for creating healthy and resilient buildings. Each year is different, but the shared goal for our community is to bring new ideas, to make a positive change in people’s lives.
The type of integration that happens with this type of community can promote new knowledge exchange and really accelerate the impact of all of our work
Presentation archive
5 Fundamental Shifts Ushering in the Healthy Buildings Era
Joseph G. Allen
A Call to Action for a Brighter Future
Kynthia Chamilothori
Bringing the Potential of BSDFs for Daylighting Systems into Planners’ Everyday Practice
David Geisler-Moroder
Case Study of the Grand Palais for Hosting Events for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris
Bertrand Deroisy
Celebrating Daylight
Darron Haylock
Comparing Daylight Provision Targets Against Light Exposure Recommendations for Circadian Stimulation
Lorna Flores Villa
Comparing the Influence of Diffuse, Direct, and Dappled Sunlight on the Restoration Potential and Experience of Offices in an Online Study
Özge Karaman Madan
Conceptual Model for Comfort, Satisfaction, Health and Well-being
Sergio Altomonte
Daylight: Real/Actual, Weather Files and Climate Change
John Mardaljevic
Daylight Requirements and Metrics Worldwide: Is It Possible to Harmonize?
Cláudia Amorim
Daylight Visualization with AI
Claus Madsen
Don’t Fight Climate, Use It
Florencia Collo
Past symposiums
About
Daylight is more than what reaches the eye. It has a long-term impact on our circadian rhythms and regulation of the biological clock. Exposure to light will, throughout your life, influence your sleep, productivity, alertness, and learning abilities.
The proper use of daylight in buildings can help reduce energy use for lighting, cooling, and heating. This results in a lower carbon footprint–and can also be harvested as a renewable source of energy.
Daylight Symposium is a biennial conference presented by VELUX, bringing together a unique community of architects, researchers, and other building industry professionals to accelerate and promote the exchange of knowledge on the potential of daylight for creating healthy and resilient buildings.
Program
Opening
08:30-09:00Arrival & Registration
08:30–09:00Design for well-being / part 1
08:30–09:00- What About Human Resilience? Breaking Up Disciplinary SilosMarcel Schweiker, University of Aachen (DE)
- A Call to Action for a Brighter FutureKynthia Chamilothori
- We Are Facing a Global Myopia Epidemic – What Can the Built Environment Do?Eleonora Brembilla, Delft University of Technology
- Comparing the Influence of Diffuse, Direct, and Dappled Sunlight on the Restoration Potential and Experience of Offices in an Online StudyÖzge Karaman Madan, Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
Design for well-being / part 2
08:30–09:00- What About Human Resilience? Breaking Up Disciplinary SilosMarcel Schweiker, University of Aachen (DE)
- A Call to Action for a Brighter FutureKynthia Chamilothori
- We Are Facing a Global Myopia Epidemic – What Can the Built Environment Do?Eleonora Brembilla, Delft University of Technology
- Comparing the Influence of Diffuse, Direct, and Dappled Sunlight on the Restoration Potential and Experience of Offices in an Online StudyÖzge Karaman Madan, Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
