A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON OCCUPANTS RESPONSE TO DAYLIGHT PROVISION IN HIGH-RISE RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN HONG KONG
Daylight is an important element in architectural design and daily activities. It gives the quality of spaces, and character of the interior. Further, the effect of daylight is not only on the energy aspects of lighting and thermal issue. It is widely accepted that daylight could do more than that, in both physical and psychological aspects. Human response to daylight in both psychological and physical aspects has been studied for many years, but there are always persistent and nagging feelings that psychological sensations do matter.There are many different guidelines in design the lighting level for both natural and artificial lighting provision, either statutory or non-legislative. Daylight provision is usually based on prescriptive quantitative approach. At the same time, it is known that human response to daylighting is always related to previous experiences, for which climatic effects, socio-cultural factors and life-styles are all affecting daylight perception and acceptance. However, due to the lack on knowledge of the qualitative studies of daylight and human response, the inter-relationship between quantitative and qualitative studies is not known. Therefore, the design process should integrate both quantitative and qualitative parameters, in order to formulate a meaningful environmental solution.The author conducted a survey in 2005 to study the user response to their windows for high-rise residential buildings in Hong Kong. The survey investigated the users expectations on living conditions, life-style, living habits and space usage, which set up a preliminary framework for future study. The author believes that the relationship between all these above parameters and occupants of the perception and acceptance of daylight provision in residential buildings. In order to provide a better living environmental to the occupants, the above parameters should be taken into account as design guidelines.
LI, FUK MING
Department of Architecture, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
国际会议
广州
英文
391-400
2006-12-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）