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skylight
Sign in to saveAlso known as skylight window, rooflight, flat roof window
thumb|Skylight in the rotunda of Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in [[Rio de Janeiro]] thumb|Oculus (architecture)|Oculus of the [[Pantheon, Rome, an open skylight]] thumb|Skylight in the vault in the Chapel of the Constable of the Burgos Cathedral, a glazed closed skylight from the 15th century
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- History
- Description
- Types
- Open skylight
- Fixed unit skylight
- Operable skylight
- Retractable skylight
- Tubular daylight device
- Sloped glazing
- Pavement lights
- Prism lights
- Solar architecture
- Materials
- Glass
- Plastic
- Rating systems
- Benefits
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Skylight in the rotunda of Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in [[Rio de Janeiro]] thumb|Oculus (architecture)|Oculus of the [[Pantheon, Rome, an open skylight]] thumb|Skylight in the vault in the Chapel of the Constable of the Burgos Cathedral, a glazed closed skylight from the 15th century
A skylight (sometimes called a rooflight) is a light-permitting structure or window, usually made of transparent or translucent glass, that forms all or part of the roof space of a building for daylighting and ventilation purposes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “skylight” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.