Mali, Poorva2023-02-042023-02-042023-02-03vt_gsexam:36328http://hdl.handle.net/10919/113665The thesis explores the relationship of light, architecture, and humans focusing on both the mathematics of solar movement that informs the architecture and the experiential and spiritual response of human perception to it. The exploration uses the celestial realm as the inspiration and canvas that the design process was built on. The light tunnels, the design concept explored in detail, investigate the consequences of architectural form and space in combination with volumetric, reflected, dispersed, or absorbed light. The design process transforms an instrument derived from the sun dial to a living piece of architecture that responds to human perception to variably objectify and reveal spiritual conditions of the celestial sky.ETDenCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationallightdarkexperiencecontextcontrastarchitectureskyThesis