2009 - Daylight Symposium
SOLAR HEAT VS. SOLAR LIGHT by Javier del Rio
Speakers
Javier del Rio
Energy Consultant, Architect PUC, AA Dipl (Hons) Energy Programme, UK, Sustainable Architecture Master Programme Coordinator, School of Architecture, UNAB, Santiago, Chile, Honorary President of the Chilean Association of Solar Energy
Heat and light have been always the great challenge to control in architecture, in ancient times this was achieved with simple solutions; no mistakes were done and based only in the experience and common sense. Nowadays this is designed separately from the building, by means of artificial equipments that regulate the thermal and visual comfort, involving heavy energy wastes. In the near future this must change again: a mixture of the past with the present.
In developed and undeveloped countries this is of great importance; in the first because they complicate the world environment and in the others, to reach progress without complicating their own existence.
Javier del Rio, Energy Consultant, Architect PUC, AA Dipl (Hons) Energy Programme, UK, Sustainable Architecture Master Programme Coordinator, School of Architecture, UNAB, Santiago, Chile, Honorary President of the Chilean Association of Solar Energy.
