Levitt Studio

Diurnal Design

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Precision lighting. All day long.

Levitt Studio is a daylighting and lighting design firm specializing in bespoke architectural environments that foster connections to nature’s cycles.  The magic behind our process is a physics-based simulation engine that helps us accurately visualize illuminated spaces both during the day and after dark.  This takes the guesswork out of design, allowing architects, engineers, developers, and owners to see accurate representations before the spaces are built.  We leverage these simulations to create high-performance lighting – “Diurnal Designs” – that change through the day and result in better comfort, minimized costs, and reduced carbon emissions.   Design meets science.

Comfort

  • Tailored design for specific occupant-defined tasks ensures the right light for the right people.
  • Reinforces health, wellbeing, and circadian rhythms.
  • Creates a luminous hierarchy which reinforces the architectural design and improves wayfinding.
  • Multi-layered approach improves task acuity while creating moments of surprise, connection, and sparkle.
  • Embraces diurnal and seasonal change that breathes life into space.

Cost

  • Reduces number and cost of light fixtures by right-sizing the layouts and intensities
  • Reduces electrical infrastructure including cable, conduit and switchgear.
  • Reduces size of HVAC systems through reduced lighting loads, solar heat gains, and glazing heat losses.
  • Reduces energy and maintenance costs of lighting and HVAC systems.
  • Reduces maintenance costs by reducing fixture counts

Carbon

  • Reduces embodied carbon through right-sized fixture counts
  • Reduces operational carbon through right-sized fixture intensity and aggressive use of lighting controls.
  • Reduces embodied carbon of electrical infrastructure including cable, conduit and switchgear.
  • Reduces embodied and operational carbon of HVAC systems through window heat loss, solar heat gain, and lighting load reductions.
  • Reduces embodied carbon associated with maintenance

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