Category

Region

Bright Floor

Bright Floor

Category
Daylight in buildings - Region 3: The Americas

Students
Vicente Urrutia
Macarena Vargas

Teacher
Javier del Rio Ojeda
Douglas Leonard

School
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Country
Chile

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The project consists in bringing external sunlight into the interior of the metro stations using thick acrylic tubes, passing through an articulating wall separated a certain distance from the boundary wall of the enclosure. Through this gap, the light goes down and illuminates the floor of the station, generating a lower illumination along the entire perimeter and floor. At night, the tubes receive light from below to illuminate outdoor public space above.