Keith J. Yancey, AIA, P.E., LC, Senior Associate, Lam Partners, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.

Quantifying Daylight for a Big Box

The David L. Lawrence Convention Center was conceived as a daylit space from the beginning. Rafael Viñoly Architects created a grand scheme for the building, and Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann developed the daylighting concept using basic rules of thumb. These preliminary concepts were tested and refined based on diffuse light analysis by Vladimir Bazjanac of Lawrence Berkeley National Laborat...