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Designing Creatively With Daylight

Designing Creatively with Daylight is an artistic and practical course that shows you how to transform spaces into vibrant living environments.

We’ll show you how to curate emotional experiences and remarkable atmospheres with light and shadows. This course has the potential to significantly change your perspective on light. You’ll deepen your understanding of how to transform people’s sense of well-being with daylight. And add beauty and richness to our everyday rituals. We also touch on the interplay between light, darkness and self-awareness. 

4 Weekly Zoom sessions, plus some exercises to sharpen your skills. It’s a heads-on, hands-on, cameras-on chatty course. All you need, while sitting in the comfort of your home, is a bright mind, and stable internet. When you’re done, you’ll be an architect of the light.

Book now to add magic to the lives of those who inhabit your creations.

The Cape Institute for Architecture has assessed and validated this Category One CPD Activity. This course carries 3.0 CPD credits.
COURSE DATES
6th Aug 2026 -
27th Aug 2026
COURSE TIMES
Thursdays
4pm - 6:30pm
COURSE Dates
5th Feb 2024 -
26th Feb 2024
5th Jun 2024 -
26th Jun 2024
5th Nov 2024 -
26th Nov 2024
COURSE times
Wednesdays
16:00 - 18:30 (GMT +2)
Wednesdays
16:00 - 18:30 (GMT +2)
Wednesdays
16:00 - 18:30 (GMT +2)

Designing Creatively With Daylight

In Stock

R 3150

Designing Creatively With Daylight

In Stock

R 1575 / Month x 2

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Course Themes

How do you experience light and darkness? How does it affect us? This session is about awakening your sensitivity and developing your appreciation of the subtleties and complexity of the interplay of light and shadow.
What is alive for you when designing a space? Too bright, too dark and the ways’ in between…how to configure the overall massing of a building to optimize natural light in the spaces. We look at how planning the natural light incidence in a project can go beyond the idea of where to place doors and windows. We want you to refine your ability to design with the light and fully understand why you are doing what you are doing.
In this session we’ll examine how light can be direct, filtered, bounced or borrowed, the different kinds of edges of light and shadows, and how to analyse a design to best make use of these qualities. Also, how daylight migrates through the building throughout the day in subtle ways. We’ll be working with a design sequence to support you to develop your perception of the quality of daylight and to create the experience you are looking for.
It is time to pull it all together with a project! Everyone will be sharing their final projects, insights, share insights and a short recap from the whole course. We will also have a self-reflective session on how do understand projection and working with our own shadow. And the not to be missed inspiring and innovative ways of working with daylight in an artistic way. It is not only about efficiency, it is also about aesthetics, art and the human experience.

Our architectural courses are open to anyone who wants to be inspired and creative. However, for those seeking to integrate meaningful learning and CPD’s credits, we are SACAP accredited as Category 1 activities providers. 

 

For foreign countries, participants can get  the equivalent UIA CPD credit value or the respective credits according to the institution responsible for Continuing Professional Development system in the country.

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