Swedish designer Daniel Rybakken crafts a carefully developed daylighting solution to the dark Scandanavian winters.
By developing a number of projects dedicated to creating artificial 'daylight', Rybakken has produced some really attractive results, including the
Daylight Entrance (pictured here) and the very clever '
Subconscious effect of Daylight'.
Using an array of LED-lights mounted on the reverse of the variously sized panels, the visible effect is incredibly persuasive. The major project shown here recreates the tilted shadow from an unseen window above, mounted carefully in key locations to give the effect of warmer and brighter space.
Presumably the panel variations are easily modified, meaning you wouldn't have the repeated parallelogram of light across the entire interior, although I suspect there would be a limit on the nature of the surface material and its texture.
The
Subconscious effect of Daylight plays off a similar perceptive assumption we make, where a piece of furniture appears to cast a shadow beneath itself, Rybakker attaching a clever little projector on its underside to give an eerie extension of space with a simple false-shadow.
I think they're very interesting, and probably of real interest to those suffering a bit of Seasonal Affective Disorder, I do think you'd have to be especially crafty to actually install them in the right spot, in the right space, next to the right materials, but given all that, I like it heaps.
A range of the Daylight panels, reverse side.
Pretty sweet looking close-up. Check out the soft edge.
The panels frontside, doing their thing. "See, there." he said.
photos are by Kalle Sanner & Daniel Rybakken