The history of the development and improvement of natural lighting systems for industrial buildings
Abstract
The history of the development and improvement of natural lighting systems for industrial buildings
Incoming article date: 20.02.2020The article considers the main stages of industrial architecture and construction’ development in the word during the last centuries.The principal architectural and structural desicions of industrial buildings are being analyzed, which were changed with time as well as different approaches to internal climatic environment of these buildings.It is noted that one of the most important regimes of the internal environment is a lighting regime which may be provided by natural or artificial methods.The natural method means prevision of natural illimination in premises and this requires the structural desicions to install windows and skylights in the workshops in question .This point is also considered in the article.The results of the analysis are being summarized in form of sertain conclusions and recomendations.
Keywords: Industrial buldings; arhitectural and structural desvions; indoor lighting envircnment; systems of side and top natural lighting; efficiency of windows, monitors and skylights