Light: The Most Important and Least Relevant.

The title does seem a little odd because from the chosen topics light is the one that doesn't seem as relevant to the other two. Purely because it is hard to pin point how to describe light in design. Peter Zumthor describes the light in a much more spiritual way, and how it is a reason to start and end each day, it also carves the path that we take each day through natural and artificial light. As well as giving us paths it can also inform design and the way in which buildings are orientated and which spaces are used for certain activities. 

Peter Zumthor. The light of Things. 

An interesting way of how the light affects space is thinking of a normal day and then a day in the fog. As shown in the image below it explains how when looking at the Chine you can see how certain events can reduce the area that is accessible through light. The black is what you would not see due to the covering of fog, the clear area is what is visible to you and really makes what was a large space seem so confined.  

Sunny Day Bournemouth Chine.

Digimap Image of how a Sunny Day in Bournemouth would feel.

Fog on a freeway in America.

How the Fog would make the Bournemouth Gardens feel.