If you are someone who’s versed in the latest trends in building designs and architecture, you’d have undoubtedly come across Skylights in Sydney. With the several beautiful designs available out there, it is easy to understand what all the fuzz is about.
But what exactly are these skylights and why should they be installed in buildings? This questions and others would be answered in this blog.
What Are Skylights?
Basically, skylights are structures that form a part or the whole of the roof which allows the inflow of natural light into a building. Usually made glass, skylights are usually a replacement of a port or the entirety of a building’s roof with a light-transmitting material.
What Is The Purpose Of Having Skylights In A Building?
So what exactly is the use of having a “window on the roof”?
The major purpose of installing skylights is quite simple: to channel natural light into a building, thus reducing the cost of artificial lighting. With skylights placed in strategic locations and supplying natural light to a building, one can conserve energy and save money on the cost for powering electric bulbs.
The fact that skylights add a seemingly mystical feel to buildings also does a lot to improve there popularity. Just try to envision it. Sleeping in your room with a million stars smiling down on you… Walking through a hallway doused in moonlight at night… Not that’s beauty you don’t get to see every day.
Types Of Skylight
While all skylights basically serve the same purpose, there are a number of properties that differentiate some skylights from others. While there is no rigid classification for skylight, below is a classification we deem more accurate.
● Fixed Skylights
These are skylights that are fixed to the roof and do not open. They are simply a section of the roof that has been replaced with materials that would permit the inflow of natural light into buildings. They are usually rectangular, square, or circular in nature, though they can come be customized into whatever shape is needed.
● Traditional skylights
Often called “roof windows”, traditional skylights are similar to fixed skylights except for the fact that they can be opened like windows in order to serve as an extra means of ventilation.
● Open skylights
These are skylights that are simply “holes in the roof”. This type of skylights is mostly used in building or passages outside the main building or in outdoor auditoriums and the likes.
● “Transparent-roof” skylights
Unlike other skylights, these ones aren’t made up of replacing a small section of the roof with transparent material, the majority, if not all of the roof.
● Tubular or tunnel skylights
These are skylights that draw natural sunlight from the roof on one part of the building, and transfer that sunlight to be used at another path of the building through the use of tubes.
Here, the skylight is connected to tubes through which the sunlight is transported to wherever it is needed.
● Customized skylights
These skylights are formed from modifying any of the other types of skylights or a combination of two or more Skylights in Sydney to suit the needs of the building or client.
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