Architecture + Cities Research Forum: Daylighting in the Marylebone Building, 1970-2020 by Rosa Schiano Phan

At this seminar, Rosa Schiano Phan presented a study on the daylighting performance of the Marylebone building. With rooflights, tilted ceilings, double height spaces and other features, it is a late modernist example of optimised daylighting design. However, the north-south symmetrical approach to the openings and the distribution of internal spaces raises questions about the efficiency of daylight. Through archival searches, desktop analysis, computational simulation and spot measurements, the study assesses the daylight performance of the architecture studios comparing their original and current use.