Studying Response to Light in Offices: A Literature Review and Pilot Study

Collier, Jessica; Wilkerson, Andrea; Durmus, Dorukalp; Bermudez, Eduardo Rodriguez-Feo

doi:10.3390/buildings13020471

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“…People experience a sense of well-being in daylight and sunshine on an emotional level. By utilizing lighting patterns with different degrees of illumination, we may create specific emotions, including relaxation, activity, warmth, and coolness [65]. Light has a physiological impact on people; for example, natural light can help patients recover and pupils perform better.…”

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Well-Being as an Effective Aspect in the Perception of Vital In-between Spaces within Art and Architecture Faculties

Al-Ramahi,

Iranmanesh,

Denerel

2023

Buildings

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In recent years, well-being has become an increasingly important consideration integrated with functional aspects in the design of educational spaces due to its significant impact on the built environment. Although the features of educational spaces have been explored in a myriad of studies, the potential of in-between spaces has not been well explored. This paper reveals the significance of in-between spaces in educational buildings beyond their functional use as the fundamental circulation within a building, indicating that they also play a dynamic role through their design as elastic gathering spaces that encourage informal interactions and link users psychologically and visually, which affects their well-being. However, the potential of these spaces is often overlooked compared to the main educational spaces. Additionally, during the design process, there seems to be a tendency to reduce these spaces to a bare minimum, in favor of exploiting larger spaces, which shows that they are regarded as merely connecting points or transitional spaces. The research problem addressed here is the lack of a clear, adequate understanding of the effect of designing in-between spaces on the productivity and well-being of users, as there are no criteria regarding in-between space designs to enhance well-being. The current paper aims to evaluate the reality of the in-between space design within the art and architecture faculties of Jordanian universities according to the perception of faculty members and students based on well-being requirements. Accordingly, a survey was designed to address the 11 key criteria identified in the literature, including (1) physical features and visual appearance; (2) size and design of in-between spaces; (3) circulation and movement space zoning; (4) ergonomics and furnishing; (5) lighting; (6) colors and finishing; (7) acoustics; (8) heating, ventilation, and air conditioning; (9) visual communication and instructional tools; (10) social and cultural spaces; and (11) accessories. The paper utilizes a mixed approach through survey and observation, where the findings are analyzed from three case studies to reveal the dimensions that need to be taken into account and developed to meet the needs of users. The results of the study demonstrate that the specific dimensions of circulation and movement, ergonomics and furnishings, colors and finishing, and accessories must be taken into account to create an interactive environment that advances the educational process and therefore enhances productivity.

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Section: Lightingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Well-Being as an Effective Aspect in the Perception of Vital In-between Spaces within Art and Architecture Faculties

Al-Ramahi,

Iranmanesh,

Denerel

2023

Buildings

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“…In recent years, increased indoor lifestyle have emphasized the significant impact of indoor lighting on health and work efficiency (Peeters et al, 2021;Collier et al, 2023). This trend highlights the urgent need for modern technology and human-centered approaches (Menendez-Velazquez et al, 2023), especially in terms of improving aspects like light color, intensity, and color temperature (Kaymaz and Manav, 2023).…”

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Effects of indoor lighting environments on paper reading efficiency and brain fatigue: an experimental study

Zhou,

Pan

2023

Front. Built Environ.

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Introduction: This study investigated the influence of indoor lighting environments on paper reading efficiency and brain fatigue to explore lighting parameters that benefit users during various reading durations.Methods: The study was conducted in the Smart Lighting Lab, where 12 participants were tested under different illuminance levels and correlated color temperatures (CCT) for three distinct reading durations. Reading efficiency during the task tests and objective measures of brain activity by monitoring participants’ electroencephalograms (EEGs) were used as key factors to assess participants’ fatigue levels.Results: By analyzing the subjective and objective results, we found that paper reading efficiency was significantly affected by changes in the lighting environment. Also, based on the results of this study, we propose lighting recommendations for paper reading tasks of different durations. For a 15 min reading task, the lighting condition of 500 lux-6,500 K were the most efficient for reading; for a 30 min reading task, 500 lux-4,000 K lighting environments were found to be the most effective; and 750 lux-6,500 K was the best lighting environment for a 60 min reading duration.Discussion: These suggestions can serve as a reference for designing indoor lighting environment. In addition, they provide guidance to researchers and reviewers conducting similar studies.

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“…Architectural lighting is an essential part of public building environment creation because light affects human health and wellbeing [1][2][3][4], as well as luminous comfort [5,6] to various degrees. In public buildings like offices, markets, and roads, luminous comfort has always been a critical factor in designing appropriate lighting conditions [7][8][9]. However, different public buildings have unique luminous requirements.…”

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Status of Typical Artificial Lighting Environments in Different Public Buildings in China, and Requirements for Their Improvement

Liang,

Jin,

Luo

et al. 2023

Buildings

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The luminous environment is an essential factor that affects people’s working and living experiences in buildings. In order to clarify the building luminous environment parameters that are required for occupant satisfaction, we collected 2553 completed questionnaires while conducting field measurements of new and updated luminous comfort metrics in 15 contexts in four cities in China. By developing a five-step approach to identifying the luminous environment needs of different building occupants, including data cleaning, correlation analysis, and nonparametric testing, we determined the thresholds for all key metrics for each scenario. The research results show that different public building environments have unique luminous environment improvement requirements, and this conclusion can guide future lighting design, LED technology and daylighting integration technology.

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Studying Response to Light in Offices: A Literature Review and Pilot Study

Cited by 5 publications

References 30 publications

Well-Being as an Effective Aspect in the Perception of Vital In-between Spaces within Art and Architecture Faculties

Well-Being as an Effective Aspect in the Perception of Vital In-between Spaces within Art and Architecture Faculties

Effects of indoor lighting environments on paper reading efficiency and brain fatigue: an experimental study

Status of Typical Artificial Lighting Environments in Different Public Buildings in China, and Requirements for Their Improvement

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