The focus on daylight in architecture is high and rising. In this respect, VELUX wants to play a role by contributing and stimulating issues that lead to better living environments. As an international manufacturer of roof windows and skylight systems, it is important for us constantly to seek and strengthen the relevance of our products in architecture. We would like to enhance and encourage the role of daylight in design prioritising.This focus is our platform for building and nurturing relations with the building sector – not least with architects.
Our founder, Villum Kann Rasmussen invented the roof window in 1942. He called his company by the short name of VELUX, an acronym of VEntilation and the Latin word for light, LUX. Part of Villum Kann Rasmussen’s original vision was to create good cheap square metres of living space under pitched roofs by letting light into the attic at a time when living space was in shortage. In the early years of VELUX much time was spent with architects and other trendsetters to present the concept and the products. By doing this, he laid the cornerstone of the strategy that we pursue today: to engage in have dedicated dialogue with professionals about daylight, and to seek and strengthen the architectural relevance of our products. We see our daily business as being closely linked to building design, with the overall objective of focussing on daylight and fresh air as providers of better living conditions in people’s everyday lives.
This objective is the platform from which we present “Daylight & Architecture”. Here we will strive to raise topics and present views and angles about the past, present and future of architecture with daylight and fresh air. This will provide a platform for dialogue between professionals in which we will raise questions rather than give standard answers and statements and thereby inspire and facilitate the discourse on architecture, especially daylight.
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