Multi-Resolution Sky Visualization: Daylight Design and Design Tools

This paper describes how building designers make sense of the sky and modern visualization techniques for representing them.The dialectic approach addresses technological innovation with respect to existing social practices.This is done for two reasons-to illustrate where practices are and how they can be extended with innovative technologies.It is shown that building designers maintain various levels of expertise for managing daylight design.Visualization prototypes are introduced also with different degrees of precision.The paper concludes with implications for the development of design tools and use by building designers.