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Seen by Sarah on May 21 2010:

“Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken has installed LED panels replicating daylight on a dark staircase in Stockholm. Called Daylight Entrance, the walls of the staircase are lined with solid surface material. Recesses were milled out from behind the material to accommodate panels of LED lights.” See more photos here.

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9 comments so far

Anonymous Coward 21 May 10

Am I understanding this correctly. Those two spots on the walls that appear to be light shining through a window and illuminating the wall service is actually LEDs and not sunlight?

Anonymous Coward 21 May 10

Am I understanding this correctly. Those two spots on the walls that appear to be light shining through a window and illuminating the wall surface are actually LEDs and not sunlight?

Adam 21 May 10

@Anonymous Coward: Yep, if you click through at the rest of the photos you’ll see that the LEDs are behind the wall.

kira 21 May 10

These are awesome. I want some of those for my house. :)

David Andersen 21 May 10

Love it.

Justin 21 May 10

Great idea and execution. I’d love to see it taken one step further: panels that change their brightness and color temperature throughout the day to replicate the differences in light between the morning, afternoon, and evening.

Scott 24 May 10

I wonder if their non-movement messes with your sense of time subconsciously.

Ape-Inago 24 May 10

Get real sunlight in there by piping it in via fiber-optics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ5MiLqb5VE

It’s awesome.

Huge 25 May 10

As photo, this is beautiful, both dark and whites are well exposed and the shades are beautiful. As architectural design the stair case and the space between the floors and the wall is beautiful. But as an idea, to replicate sunlight on walls with LEDs, I am not sold: feels like artificial life in a underground city on the Moon.

I understand that some Nordic countries get little light at some periods of the year (I live in Canada), but there’s ought to be better architectural solutions to the lack of light than artificiality. I can think of light-pits, glass walls and clever use of mirror.