Education Spaces

The overall goal of lighting for educational spaces is to provide a visual environment for both the students and the faculty that is supportive of the learning process. Providing a lighting system that allows occupants to accurately, quickly and comfortably identify and perform their visual task is key. Layering light to provide several levels and types of illumination is a much better alternative to the the previous methodology of one fairly high uniform illuminance throughout the facility, due to the range of visual tasks, including VDT's, currently found in educational spaces. Maintenance and energy are also primary design issues, with daylight harvesting in classroom and general spaces a prevalent means of saving energy by reducting the electric load in direct proportion to daylight penetration.

Selected Project Listing

Duke University

Fuqua School Seminar Room
Durham, North Carolina

University of North Carolina

Dental Sciences Building
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Auburn University

W.W. Walker Building
Auburn, Alabama

Chapel Hill/Carrboro Public Schools

Meadowmont Elementary Daylighting Study
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Chapel Hill/Carrboro Public Schools*

Smith Middle School - Interior Spaces
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Sterling Montessori School*

Daylighted Classrooms
Morrisville, North Carolina


*work performed by design team member with previous employer