Design Strategy
Top Daylighting
Skylights and clerestories are a source of top daylighting which admit additional daylight and solar energy inside a building. Even on cloudy days, top lighting can provide excellent daylight because it has more of a view of the upper sky vault. Top daylighting should be complemented with side daylighting, light shelves, and high-reflectance surfaces to provide uniform deep-plan daylighting without the glare of direct sunlight.
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Reference Projects
![Chadstone Shopping Centre](https://climatescout.arcadis.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/M40_960016_00_Chadst44_N2_highres-scaled-1-538x404.jpg)
Chadstone Shopping Centre
Melbourne, Australia