Bring daylight to every room in your home

 

Every room in your home deserves to be filled with natural light—even those in the center of your home. Unlike traditional windows, the VELUX Sun Tunnel® Skylight can be installed within an afternoon, making it one of the fastest and most inexpensive ways to transform your home with natural light.

Adding a Sun Tunnel® Skylight is a cost-effective way to add natural light to areas that need a brighter, more vibrant appearance. Their low-profile design creates a sleek appearance on any roofline, and their pre-fabricated light tube makes them quick and easy to install. Not to mention, they come with a 20-year tube warranty

Holt's most recognized artwork, Sun Tunnels  is a large-scale installation in Utah's Great Basin Desert, a four-hour drive from the UMFA. It consists of four large concrete cylinders, arranged on the desert floor in a cross pattern, that align with the sunrise and sunset on the summer and winter solstices.

In addition to this perfect solar framing

 each of the cylinders is pierced with smaller holes representing the stars of four constellations: Draco, Perseus, Columba, and Capricorn. Holt's design allows for an ever-changing play of light and shadow upon the surfaces of her work. The four concrete tubes act as viewfinders framing precise images which, in Holt's words, "bring the vast space of the desert back to human scale."

One of only a few women associated with Land art, Holt is a key yet under-recognized figure who has produced ambitious projects all over the world. Holt was also a pioneer of time-based media, and the camera was crucial to her exploration of space, sculptural form, and subjective perspective. Her work—photographs, films, site-specific installations, earthworks, public sculpture, and even personal flashlight and audio tours—transforms our perception of place, space, and time

Focusing our vision and challenging our understanding of an environment, Holt's work draws attention to the complexities of our relationship with the landscape we inhabit and act upon.

Sun Tunnels is a part of the Holt/Smithson Foundation, which furthers the legacies of Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt. UMFA partners with Holt/Smithson Foundation, Dia Art Foundation, and the Center for Land Use Interpretation to further advocate for Sun Tunnels.

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ringing in natural, soft light throughout your home is now easier and more affordable than ever. Many houses have bathrooms, hallways, and other rooms where daylight only enters when you open the door. Dim and dark, these rooms are unwelcoming places until you turn on a light.

Not the option of choice for many people. Those days are over. Sun tunnels can dramatically change a room, they’re the fastest way to add natural light and an expansive, open feeling to those dark spaces. They harness sunlight and the impact is stunning. The installation has no structural changes to the house and can typically be completed within 3 hours.

best skylights in Calgary

 the diffused and reflected light of the sky. : an opening in a house roof or ship's deck that is covered with translucent or transparent material and that is designed to admit light.

What are skylights used for?

What are skylights and roof windows? Skylights and roof windows are glazed openings on a pitched or flat roof designed to provide more light to the home. As well as allowing natural light into your home, they can also allow fresh air to enter if they are openable or vented.

 

There are three main types of skylights, ventilating (sometimes called "roof windows"), fixed and tubular. They come in a range of different shapes, including flat, arched, domed and pyramid.

Tubular Skylights

Recent developments in skylight design use sun-tracking, open-sided cylinders; large lens-like elements; or mirrored reflectors mounted adjacent to a conventional skylight to provide daylighting without daytime heat gain or nighttime heat loss.

Such a skylight may connect to a mirrored pipe or "light pipe" with a diffusing lens that mounts on or is recessed into the ceiling of the room below. Most tubular skylights have this feature. Tubular skylight designs do not, however, provide views or ventilation.

Ventilation

Skylights can provide ventilation as well as light. Ventilating a building with an operable skylight releases the hot air that naturally accumulates near the ceiling. Ventilating skylights usually open outward at the bottom, and some units vent through a small, hinged panel. Skylights may be opened manually with a pole, chain, or crank.

Roof Windows

Larger skylights that can be used as emergency exits are sometimes called "roof windows" and are located within a few feet of the floor.

Automated Skylights

Automated units with electric motors or pneumatic devices are also available. Some models incorporate moisture sensors to automatically close the skylight when it rains.

Skylight Design Considerations

Before selecting a skylight for your home, determine what type of skylight will work best and where to place it to optimize its contribution to your home’s daylighting and

We offer a wide range of skylight options for residential homes. People are choosing to transform their living spaces. They know the benefits of natural light and fresh air and are turning to skylights technology to create healthier homes that are as stunning as they are environmentally conscientious.

best skylights in Calgary

Skylights are available in a variety of shapes and sizes. The most common shapes include rectangular, circular, oval, diamond, triangular, multi-sided, and tubular.

Non-rectangular units usually use plastic glazing, but higher quality ones use glass. The glazing can be flat, arched, domed, pyramidal, or "warped plane"—flat on the low side and concave in section on the high side. Of these, the pyramidal, arched, and domed shapes offer flexibility for positioning, because their raised design allows light to enter from more extreme angles than flat or warped plane units.

The slope or curvature of the glazing also helps to shed moisture and leaves. These skylight designs also do not require the additional framing needed to slope a flat skylight for proper drainage on flat or low-slope roofs.

Tubular skylights are smaller than most other skylights. They consist of roof-mounted light or solar collectors, which increase their daylighting potential without the need to increase their size. Because the rooftop solar collector has a small surface area, tubular skylights minimize heat loss in the winter and heat gain in summer. Their small size also minimizes their impact on a home's architecture.