Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Aki Ishida
Jan Duiker’s Sanatorium Zonnestraal, built in 1926to 1931 near Hilversum in the Netherlands, is anexemplar of modern architecture designed as ahygienic machine. The building has continued tobe recognized for its significance not only for itsmodern construction methods and materials butalso as an emblem of healing architecture in thetimes of tuberculosis. Fresh air and light were deliveredto the patient through the architecture. Thispaper examines Zonnestraal through the notionof light exposure. Furthermore, a critical study ofthis building suggests a nuanced mode of thinkingabout light exposure in today’s buildings andcities–one that responds to specific contexts andtime by synthesizing daylight with electric light, andby embracing a range of exposure from filtered tobright, from direct to indirect light.
Volume Editors
Billie Faircloth, Howard Frumkin & Sara Jensen Carr
ISBN
978-1-944214-09-8
