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Shade and Shadow Notes

This document discusses shadows and lighting design in architecture. It begins by stating that light and shadow are unified and that architects acquire shape through light and shadow. It then notes that increasing artificial light sources are decreasing zones of shadow, while growing glass usage questions the significance of shadows. Several key terms related to shadows are defined. The rest of the document provides tips on building architectural models that effectively demonstrate shadows, including using black paper not foam core, covering materials to prevent light leaks, including interchangeable parts, using mirrors to enhance depth, and including people or objects for scale.

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Shade and Shadow Notes

This document discusses shadows and lighting design in architecture. It begins by stating that light and shadow are unified and that architects acquire shape through light and shadow. It then notes that increasing artificial light sources are decreasing zones of shadow, while growing glass usage questions the significance of shadows. Several key terms related to shadows are defined. The rest of the document provides tips on building architectural models that effectively demonstrate shadows, including using black paper not foam core, covering materials to prevent light leaks, including interchangeable parts, using mirrors to enhance depth, and including people or objects for scale.

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Shade and Shadow

Lights Dark Brother


Light and Shadow a unity.

It is only through light and shadow that architects acquire shape.

Lighting Design is Shade and Shadow


Light and shadow belong together.
Yet the increasing number of artificial
light sources on earth are resulting in
continuously decreasing zones of
shadow and darkness.
In architecture, the growing use of glass
and other translucent layers questions
the very significance of shadows.
Do they protect against or cause a loss of
brightness?
Do we even need shadows today at all?

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Shadows are full of Secrets

The table cast a shadow on the grass.


Why do we say the table cast a shadow on the grass, and not the
grass cast a shadow on the table?

Shadows are full of Secrets

A shadow is the absence of light.


a negative entity, an absence, a hole in the light, there is
nothing within the shadow to give it direction.

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We say.. the beams run from wall to wall..

even though the beams do not move.

We say we can see the sea

even if it is the light from the sea that moves towards us


and there are no rays of vision just as there are not shadow rays.

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Shadow Terminology
Shading
Attached Shadow
Inter-reflection
Cast Shadow
Penumbra

Shadow Terminology
Highlight
Refracted Shadow
Refracted Light
Cast Shadow
Penumbra

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Shadow Terminology
Shading
Shading

Diffuse

Highlight

Glossy

Light Direction
Light travels in a straight lineradiates out from the source

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Light Direction of Clear Lamps


Light travels in a straight lineradiates out from the source

. add a clear enclosure or


envelope around the source, the
light will still travel in a straight
line.

Light Direction of Frosted Lamps


Light travels in a straight lineradiates out from the source

. add a coated or frosted


enclosure or envelope around
the source, the direction of light
will bend and radiate from the
surface of the enclosure

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Penumbra

Full Light
100%

0%

Small light
source

No light

Penumbra

Full Light
100%

0%

Large light
source

No light

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Shade
Shadow

Colored Shadows

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The Allegory of the Cave

Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they
acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms.
The allegory of the cave is supposed to explain this.
In the allegory, Plato likens people untutored in the Theory of Forms to prisoners chained in a cave, unable to
turn their heads. All they can see is the wall of the cave. Behind them burns a fire. Between the fire and the
prisoners there is a parapet, along which puppeteers can walk. The puppeteers, who are behind the prisoners,
hold up puppets that cast shadows on the wall of the cave. The prisoners are unable to see these puppets, the
real objects, that pass behind them. What the prisoners see and hear are shadows and echoes cast by objects
that they do not see.
The prisoners may learn what a book is by their experience with shadows of books. But they would be mistaken
if they thought that the word "book" refers to something that any of them has ever seen. Likewise, we may
acquire concepts by our perceptual experience of physical objects. But we would be mistaken if we thought that
the concepts that we grasp were on the same level as the things we perceive.

Shadows in Science

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Shadows Teach Us

Shadows Teach Us

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Shadow Recognition (identification)

We see a shadow, then activate a recognition process that


triggers the category of the object

Shadow Recognition (identification)

We see a shadow, then activate a recognition process that


triggers the category of the object

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Shadows and Distance

Shadows Define or Confuse


Shadows and shading are used in perception in order to reconstruct objects shape and relative
position. However this ability may conflict with other visual capabilities and be overrun by them.

You can use a shadow


to disambiguate an
image. Are these steps
ascending of
descending? Do you
see them from top of
bottom of the stair?

These two round images are simply flipped copies


of each other. The reason they look different is that
your visual system is inclined to interpret images
as having a light source coming from above - the
shadows from such a light source are only
consistent with a dent (left) and bump (right).

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Shadows Proofs

Typically shadows hide. But, a


shadows can also reveal. In this case,
the round shadow cast from some
object out of view can sharpen the
contrast of the small shadow , and make
it more visible.

Losing Shadows

The image of a face is seen on the left shadows reveal the contour,
But, outline the shadow, and the effect is lost.
The outlining turns the shadow into a non-shadow, and prevents vision
from using it to reconstruct the 3-D structure of object.

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Shadows Define or Confuse

Our visual system can assign different interpretations to areas in th image that have the same
content.
Lightness is the perceived reflectance of a surface. It represents the visual system's attempt to
extract reflectance based on the luminances in the scene.
Brightness is the perceived intensity of light coming from the image itself, rather than any property
of the portrayed scene. Brightness is sometimes defined as perceived luminance.

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The importance of
scene interpretation..
one sees two different
or identical objects?

The impossible steps. On the left, the


horizontal strips appear to be due to
paint; on the right, they appear to be
due to shading.

Click for Demo

Click for Demo

Click for Demo

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Famous Shadows

Famous Shadows

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Famous Shadows

Famous Shadows

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Larry Kagan

For light lends a building its contour.

..and shadow lends it depth.

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Tandao Ando

Forest of Tombs Museum

Tandao Ando

Church of the light

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Tandao Ando

Hyogo Prefectural Museum

Tandao Ando

Church On The Water

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Tandao Ando Links

http://www.pulitzerarts.org/ando.htm
http://www.coldbacon.com/art/tadaoando.html

Luis Barragn

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Louis Kahn

Louis Kahn

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Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier

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Steven Holl

Herzog and de Meuron

Loisium Visitor Center

Walker Art Center

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Etchings and Sketchs

Giorgio de Chrico's

Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

The Disquieting Muses

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Photographs

www.shadowspro.com

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Building a Model

Tip 1

Do not use Foam Core the material glows and creates light
leaks
Use black paper on white board and cover or tape all light leaks
Black Foam Core is expensive.

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Tip 2

White Foam Core is reflective and shiny.


Cover the insides with appropriate surface reflectance or color
material.

Tip 3

Make a modular model with interchangeable parts.

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Tip 4

Mirrors can enhance the depth of a model.


Mirrors are useful in large space with respective plans.

Tip 5

Know true north and latitude.


Draw north arrow on your model.

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Tip 6

Include accessible large view ports.


Large enough for use cameras or yield a good view of the
interior.

Tip 7

Include people or objects for scale.

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