“Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken has installed LED panels replicating daylight on a dark staircase in Stockholm. Called Daylight Entrance, the walls of the staircase are lined with solid surface material. Recesses were milled out from behind the material to accommodate panels of LED lights.” See more photos here.
Anonymous Coward
on 21 May 10Am I understanding this correctly. Those two spots on the walls that appear to be light shining through a window and illuminating the wall service is actually LEDs and not sunlight?
Anonymous Coward
on 21 May 10Am I understanding this correctly. Those two spots on the walls that appear to be light shining through a window and illuminating the wall surface are actually LEDs and not sunlight?
Adam
on 21 May 10@Anonymous Coward: Yep, if you click through at the rest of the photos you’ll see that the LEDs are behind the wall.
kira
on 21 May 10These are awesome. I want some of those for my house. :)
David Andersen
on 21 May 10Love it.
Justin
on 21 May 10Great idea and execution. I’d love to see it taken one step further: panels that change their brightness and color temperature throughout the day to replicate the differences in light between the morning, afternoon, and evening.
Scott
on 24 May 10I wonder if their non-movement messes with your sense of time subconsciously.
Ape-Inago
on 24 May 10Get real sunlight in there by piping it in via fiber-optics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ5MiLqb5VE
It’s awesome.
Huge
on 25 May 10As photo, this is beautiful, both dark and whites are well exposed and the shades are beautiful. As architectural design the stair case and the space between the floors and the wall is beautiful. But as an idea, to replicate sunlight on walls with LEDs, I am not sold: feels like artificial life in a underground city on the Moon.
I understand that some Nordic countries get little light at some periods of the year (I live in Canada), but there’s ought to be better architectural solutions to the lack of light than artificiality. I can think of light-pits, glass walls and clever use of mirror.
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