Daylighting: Natural Light in Architecture

(National Geographic (Little) Kids) #1

Jubilee Line Extension ^ Canada Water Ron Herron/Imagination


Whilst the daylighting at Southwark is not
evident above ground, being achieved by the
source of daylight concealed in the cone; the
daylight at Canada Water makes its presence
felt at street level by an entrance in the form
of a large glazed entrance cylinder.


The cylinder acts as a daylight lantern to
the escalator halls below, and funnels daylight
deep into the building, providing a dynamic
shadow pattern to the hall.
This is very much in the tradition of some
of Chas. Holden’s original stations such as

Arnos Grove, but with a much clearer
daylight orientation.

180 Daylighting: Natural Light in Architecture


Axonometric of the station to illustrate the
form of daylighting

Plan at ground level

Ron Herron/Imagination

Ron Herron/Imagination
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