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Flashing blades: the lighting requirements for fencing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Mary Ann Steane
Mary Ann Steane
Affiliation:
The Martin CentreUniversity of CambridgeDepartment of Architecture6 Chaucer RoadCambridge CB2 2EB, UK
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Abstract

The necessity for lighting guidelines to be rewritten is becoming increasingly obvious, particularly as far as daylighting design is concerned. In this study, current lighting recommendations for the sport of fencing are examined alongside the typical environmental conditions in which it has been practised. A detailed review of the visual environment of a daylit building designed in the '30s, Luigi Moretti's fencing academy in Rome, demonstrates that a broad range of criteria need to be taken into account when lighting requirements are defined.

Type
Environmental Design
Information
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 2000 , pp. 163 - 176
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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