Daylighting.(ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGES)(Brief article)

Alaskans have a special relationship to daylight. It's feast or famine: either we have sun all day and all night, or we have precious little, for months on end. Perhaps that's why Alaskans want all the daylight we can get, not only in our buildings' main spaces but in deep interior spaces such as hallways. In two award-winning buildings shown here (the Blood Bank of Alaska and the Animal Control Shelter), Livingston Slone's architects bring daylight into buildings by indirect means: clerestories, translucent roofing and skylights. Together with the buildings' windows, these daylighting devices bring a diffuse light into our buildings that adds a lively warmth that we like, winter and summer.

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