OCULIGHT dynamics engaged their collective expertise to analyse the various factors involved in how VELUX’s Living Places harnesses daylight for a healthy indoor living experience. They considered the comfort the indoor space offers, so that occupants can enjoy and appreciate daylight without too much brightness and glare. They also looked at the emotional and physiological effects of daylight, how it visually stimulates us through the composition of contrast and how it influences our vitality and bodily responses.

Marilyne Andersen is the professor of Sustainable Construction Technologies at EPFL and co-founder of OCULIGHT dynamics. She has led and continues to lead vital research into daylight that impacts the architectural and research communities.

Marilyne joined with Siobhan Rockcastle and María Lovísa Ámundadóttir to found OCULIGHT, the culmination of 15 years of scientific research together. They form an interdisciplinary team that complements each other’s skills to evaluate how daylight can promote health and comfort indoors. In essence, OCULIGHT dynamics ‘carries a way to talk about daylight as an experience’ and how it can connect us to the outside world.