They are smoke vents to facilitate clearing smoke from a basement fire. They are often used as skylights but there are examples where they’re covered with opaque material but serve the same purpose.
I’ve worked in basement office where these were the only natural light source.
To facilitate you slipping over when it rains
It has 2 functions, source of natural light and to release smoke in case of fire in the basement. Firefighters come, break them so the smoke can escape and then they can properly work stopping the fire.
If you go down to the basement level of a building with these and look up it’s pretty cool to look at people walking over them. Some are pure glass so you can actually see details of shoes/coats etc as they pass overhead.
Luxfor
Firefighters break them in case of basement fires to release smoke and heat.
Lower ground floor old world buildings have had their windows covered up and new pavement added up to the edge of the building so glass bricks are used to add some natural light to the floor below the street
I built my room and installed them between the wall and its great for natural light and brighten up the room easily
Pavement lights, sounds weird, but provides light in the basement.
It’s called ‘Luxcrete’ and is basically a system to provide light to underground rooms and basements.
It’s for smoke evacuation.
They’re called “Pavement Lights” and they’re basically skylights for the basement below.
Ain’t this near Euston
So desperate Dan the lavatory (Charles Hawtrey) man can look up your skirt
Squares
Borrowed light bricks for the passage basement below.
Every London nerd can’t wait to break out the whole natural light/smoke evacuation purpose here
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Light for what’s beneath I believe
Skylights.
They are smoke vents to facilitate clearing smoke from a basement fire. They are often used as skylights but there are examples where they’re covered with opaque material but serve the same purpose.
Pavement lights https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavement_light
I’ve worked in basement office where these were the only natural light source.
To facilitate you slipping over when it rains
It has 2 functions, source of natural light and to release smoke in case of fire in the basement. Firefighters come, break them so the smoke can escape and then they can properly work stopping the fire.
If you go down to the basement level of a building with these and look up it’s pretty cool to look at people walking over them. Some are pure glass so you can actually see details of shoes/coats etc as they pass overhead.
Luxfor
Firefighters break them in case of basement fires to release smoke and heat.
Lower ground floor old world buildings have had their windows covered up and new pavement added up to the edge of the building so glass bricks are used to add some natural light to the floor below the street
I built my room and installed them between the wall and its great for natural light and brighten up the room easily
Pavement lights, sounds weird, but provides light in the basement.
It’s called ‘Luxcrete’ and is basically a system to provide light to underground rooms and basements.
It’s for smoke evacuation.
They’re called “Pavement Lights” and they’re basically skylights for the basement below.
Ain’t this near Euston
So desperate Dan the lavatory (Charles Hawtrey) man can look up your skirt
Squares
Borrowed light bricks for the passage basement below.
Every London nerd can’t wait to break out the whole natural light/smoke evacuation purpose here
Yes I was too late
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