Natural daylighting
The Chancellery maximizes the use of natural lighting through a variety of strategies and only supplements this with artificial lighting where necessary. The key planning strategy is the separation of the overall building footprint into four separate buildings covered by a large overhanging roof. The buildings are arranged to suit areas of more and less daylight availability. The teaching and office spaces which represent the greatest amount of floor area are oriented towards the north east and thereby provided with the most access to daylight whilst being separated from the car-parking by a green zone to mitigate reflected light and glare. The Chancellery and Student Services are located to the south west corner and the lecture theater is positioned to the south east corner requiring the least daylighting. Skylights and clerestory windows provide consistent daylighting to the building interior above the circulation breezeways and the social spaces between the buildings.