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* Let There Be Light Light and space in new American museums 西南民族大学 景观专业 Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. ——Ralph Waldo Emerson Outline Light is an important part of a building, bringing nature light into the indoor space is a wonderful but difficult thing, especially to the museums. The best conditions to view most types of art are full of natural light with all its variation, but are also, unfortunately, often the most damaging environments to art. But, here’s something really cheerful,. Recent advances in light controlling technology, including adjustable, computerized louvers, screens and blinds, even glass technology that can cut out harmful UV rays, means that natural light can be brought into galleries at controlled levels with no more effect on the art than electric light. Examples High Museum of Art On the top floor, they made 1,000 light scoops a ceiling system that can protect the arts from direct sky light, for UV filters in the glazed skylight glass eliminate the harmful parts of natural light. Besides, the cast gypsum ceiling coffers abet the transition from the harsh skylight geometries to the ceilings, eliminating hard shadow lines on the ceiling that may distract the eye from the art. Designer: Renzo Piano Examples Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Designer: Steven Holl The Feather and The Stone While the original building is opaque, the new one is transparent; one promotes inward views, the other views out to the landscape; one is heavy, the other light. These lenses are made of a double layer glass assembly with a pressurized air cavity between the layers. They have essentially made the entire museum a tool for collecting and circulating light. During the day the lenses gather, diffuse and refract varying qualities of light into the galleries, while at night they glow within sculpture garden lake lanterns on a field. The custom designed glass is low iron for whiteness, s