Wooden Blinds: Light Cut into Strips

A window with solid wood shutters. The shutters are full wooden panels that open outwards or inwards, with the slats arranged diagonally at a fixed angle. The wood is unpainted olive wood or pine painted a faded blue-green. When closed, strong sunlight is cut into parallel, slender strips of light by the slats, casting clear and regular stripes on the opposite white wall and terracotta floor tiles. The light strips slowly slide and change angle on the wall as the sun moves. The interior remains cool and dim, with only these light strips being bright. The wall is white lime plaster, and the undulations of its surface slightly vary the edges of the light strips. Two ceramic pots are placed on the windowsill. Avoid: using aluminum and plastic shutters, replacing shutters with curtains, eliminating the striped effect of the light strips, illuminating the interior uniformly and brightly.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一扇裝有實木百葉的窗。百葉是外開或內開的整片木扇,葉片以固定角度斜向排列,木料是未上漆的橄欖木或漆成褪色藍綠的松木。關上時,強烈的陽光被葉片切成一道道平行的細長光帶,投射在對面的白牆與赤陶地磚上,形成清楚而規律的條紋;光帶隨著太陽移動而在牆面上緩慢滑行、角度改變。室內因此維持涼爽昏暗,只有這些光帶是亮的。牆面是白色石灰塗料,表面的起伏讓光帶的邊緣略有變化。窗台上放著兩只陶罐。避免:使用鋁製與塑膠百葉、把窗簾取代百葉、消除光帶的條紋效果、把室內照得均勻明亮。