Page 21 of Design for our future selves 2003 Awards by Helen Hamlyn Research Centre - Royal College of Art

19 Simon Thorp eoutside-inf officeillumination Designed to enhance well-being at work by making office workers more aware of the changing patterns of the natural world, this project proposes a system of window fittings and ceiling-hung receptors in order to reflect coloured sunlight deep into the work interior even when the blinds are closed. Suzi Winstanley silk street and the difference engine The working and living environment of handloom silk weavers in Chennai City, India, is the subject of this architectural study which proposes a radical new scheme to give them greater identity and independence. Their conditions were crossreferenced with Indiafs booming software industry.

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