Case Study 4: Light and Color

 My building of course is the Lever House in New York City. This is a perfect example of how light is reflected off of spandrel and transparent glass and how the shadow of the building is cast. In the first four photos I used a flashlight to represent the movement of the sun. You can see how the shadow of the vertical building is highly affected by the light where as the horizontal building's shadow still moves but not as far because of its height. The shadow gets longer as the light goes up and as it goes down, but when the light is hovering over the model (2nd photo) the shadow gets compressed. The chrome duck tape represents the glass of the Lever House; It has a similar reflective quality. I would imagine as cars drive by, one would be able to see the reflection of the cars in the windows. Artificial light can bend and stretch as it is reflected upon this building. As far as the color goes it does not change much except for the fact that the green area gets darker or lighter depending on where the sun is. When the sun is down it is a dark building and when it is out the building is light green/blue because the glass is lit up. The last photo (bottom) taken was with natural light only (no flashlight). I wanted to mimic the effect of a cloudy day where we virtually never see the sun. As you can tell the shadow is extremely hard to see, making it nearly invisible.

"A shadow is cast / over the fast city streets / the sun is present"

- Ryan Gates -