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News • Sponsored Articles • 5 Sep 2025
Designing with daylight: How VELUX BIM tools empower smarter, healthier architecture
Daylight is becoming a defining component of contemporary architecture, where sustainability, occupant wellbeing, and environmental performance increasingly guide design decisions. It is not merely a feature of windows and openings, but a measurable driver of spatial quality and comfort.
With the shift to digital design workflows, architects now have the opportunity to integrate daylight as a parameter from the very first stages of a project. VELUX BIM objects make this possible, delivering specification-ready, standardised content that empowers architects to work creatively while meeting performance and compliance goals.
Bringing daylight into the digital process
In many projects, daylight is addressed only after building... More
News • Sponsored Articles • 13 May 2025
Optimizing indoor environments through early-design daylight analysis with VELUX Daylight Visualizer
Daylight is emerging as a fundamental component in contemporary architecture, where sustainability and occupant well-being increasingly inform design decisions. It is not merely a byproduct of openings or orientation, but a driver of spatial quality and environmental performance.
VELUX’s Leading with Daylight campaign highlights the importance of integrating daylight considerations early in the design process—supported by tools like the VELUX Daylight Visualizer, a free and validated simulation software. Compatible with widely used CAD and BIM software, the tool allows architects to evaluate daylight performance before construction begins, enabling more intentional, comfort-driven outcomes for any building typ... More
Project • By Mirck Architecture • Auditoriums
ITC Annex
The current trend in The Netherlands is to recycle existing buildings rather than to replace them. In the old city of Leiden Mirck Architecture has designed such a rejuvenation for a 15th century landmark canal house. In the 1960s the building’s interior was effectively destroyed, which sad event opened interesting perspectives for the building’s redevelopment. The building is now used as an Annex by the International Tax Center Leiden, a postgraduate studies that is housed in the neighboring mansion at Rapenburg 65.The Rapenburg 63 Annex houses a fully equipped modern lecture theatre with 74 seats, a student lounge, and student studios along with a joint living room annex kitchen that overlooks the splendid garden at the backside of the bu... More
Topfix
Zenithal sun protection equipped with a new revolutionary tensioning technique, realized with our renowned Fixscreen-technology. The results in the realisation of an unsurpassed fabric tension, even in extreme wind load up to 74.5 mph (120 km/h). Flapping and ripped fabrics belong to the past. The compact cabinet dimensions facilitate a perfect integration into your architecture.
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- Topfix
- Topfix VMS
- Topfix Max More
Product • By JASNO • JASNO Shutters
JASNO Shutters
Shutters feature adjustable louvers that can control light and privacy in a space. They are available in various styles, including classical, baroque, modern, and country, and can be customized with different colors, louver widths, and operating systems.
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JASNO’s shutters are designed to combine aesthetics, functionality, and easy maintenance, ensuring lasting quality and satisfaction. Whether shutters are needed for a bathroom, roof, angled, rounded, or standard window, JASNO offers made-to-measure solutions that fit every need, from small attic windows to large sliding doors.
Uses
JASNO’s shutters are suitable for all window types, including roof windows, tilt-and-turn windows, stained glass, and uniquel... More