May
08
The Luminous Adds Windows to Window-less Offices
Posted under Thoughts, Web/TechI like a lot of sunlight. Apparently, I’m not alone. A company called SkyCeiling is now manufacturing virtual skylights for offices which will throw off daylight amounts of LED light. And a realistic background to make you at least feel you are seeing real daylight.
Basically, you’d cut a hole in the ceiling and insert their specially designed materials in place of perhaps an old fluorescent light.
The Luminous Rectilinear SkyCeiling can be designed to any rectilinear shape, or arrangement of shapes that can be defined by the ceiling grid.
How It Works:
1. Ceiling Grid - Client-provided standard or custom ceiling grid with 9" of vertical clearance.
2. Elevators - Aluminum frames fit into ceiling grid and support image tiles.
3. Image Tiles - Sky image on translucent acrylic panels.
4. Lighting Systems - 6500K, daylight-balanced T-5 fluorescent, or optional 6000K day light-balanced RFfreeLux LEDs (for MRIs).
Product - Luminous Rectilinear Sky Ceiling Thanks for the link B!
Similarly, you might want to check out the Phillips Dynamic Daylight Display…
What do you think? If you have a windowless office, how do you think a Luminous or dynamic daylight display would affect your workday?
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My office has plenty of windows, but this would still be cool over my cubicle.
Eric, you’re right. There’s no such thing as too much sunlight in a room.
That’s pretty similar to how hollywood creates window views on big sets and it seems to work for them!
If you get the right spectrum spread for the light, this would probably help people suffering from seasonal affective disorder (aka, the winter blues.)
The blue sky image with tree branches might be a little hokey in real life, but a plain blue panel would probably look pretty cool.
Back in college I lived in a basement apartment that go almost no direct sunlight and often dreamed of creating a fake window box that would give a similar effect.
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