Students typically take it in their fourth or fifth year.
After learning the basics of daylighting and its analysis and design, the students modeled famous pieces of architecture in 3D. The Autocad models were translated into Radiance . Then, the students analyzed the daylight patterns for a specific time and created photorealistic renderings as well as luminance maps. Damon Grimes modeled Ronchamp from Le Corbusier. To our knowledge, this is the first lighting evaluation that was ever done on this complex piece of architecture. Ronchamp's lighting is characterized by very small, recessed windows, either in strips along the ceiling, or in squares in the walls.