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  • Daveybotdaveybot@mastodon.scot
    Sep 20, 2026, 7:56 AM

    No particular reason, but here are some rooflights and/or oculi, from the archive.

    A cancer support centre, an old bird house, a bank, and an art gallery.

    Three from Scotland, one from Germany. And honestly the third one isn’t actually American. Really.

    #Architecture

    A view of a cutout in a roof designed to bring daylight down into an interior. It’s lined by a square series of golden metallic panels to reflect of the light, but each of these is also perforated with a graphical pattern of triangular cutouts. This admits textured light through the panels into the interior but also means the reflected light becomes more textured too. Glazing below also features a series of linear frits, and the overall effect becomes a lovely series of gradually increasing graphical textures of light and colour, diffusing the view of the wooden interior.
    A view of a cutout in a roof designed to bring daylight down into an interior. A tiny open oculus at the top of this domed doocot/ dovecote admits daylight down into the interior, and that daylight catches the concentric horizontal bands which form the shelves on which birds would sleep. It looks a bit like a slightly trippy vortex from an old black&white scifi show, perhaps.
    A view of a series of cutouts in a roof designed to bring daylight down into an interior. A neoclassical domed ceiling with a glimpse of some of the cornice and heavily decorated arches on the adjacent supporting walls. There’s a lot of ornate plasterwork all over it, and there are rich colours of red, white, blue, and gold. The main dome, painted a deep blue, features a central circular oculus, but also a series of concentric rings of star-shaped rooflights, all admitting bright daylight. The whole thing looks very, VERY American, but it’s actually the old main branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland, in Edinburgh.
    A view of a roof designed to bring daylight down into an interior. A modern roof structure of incredibly thin but also very deep white-painted concrete fins, in radial lines and concentric circles, under a glazed roof, all spanning over a wide circular atrium in an art gallery. It’s a cloudy day outside so the daylight is completely diffuse, but it’s flooding into the atrium all the same, and the thin lines of the window glazing or bottom edges of the structural fins form dark edges in contrast against the bright sky.
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