You must have listened that natural light has a positive effect on our overall wellbeing. Sunlight lowers cholesterol and blood pressure and strengthens your immune system. Exposure to limited sunlight is recommended for its healing properties even by select medical practitioners. Needless to say, lighting up your building has a lot of benefits.
But lighting need can be from windows only? Well, no Skylights or roof windows are a great source of natural light. Even on a gloomy rainy day, roof windows can cheer you up with the view of the rain about you.
But does it genuinely ads any value to building? Other than adding to building aesthetic value, skylights may even add to your resale value. It can allow you to gaze up at a starry night sky or enjoy the fading orange glow of a sunset. Remote-operated skylights allow you to react quickly to shield yourself from environmental changes like rain, dust winds or simply an unpleasant smell. Advanced skylights even come equipped with rain sensors that automatically trigger a shutdown.
The very purpose of installing a skylight is to bring natural light into a building. However, while doing so, we also bring in a lot of heat. In our country, we do not have the problem of ‘heat loss’ due to skylights. Because, there are hardly any buildings with heating facilities here. We use air conditioning (cooling). So, with a combinations skylights and hot summers, we would be facing loss of air conditioning (cooling), if not designed properly.
Read article to know more about principles and key factors for perfectly designing it.
