Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Visual Comfort and Architectural Lighting
Vision is the sense that provides us with the majority of information about the natural and built environments. The information received depends on the characteristics of the light source, the optical properties of the objects reflecting the incoming light, and the way we perceive light with our ability to see. Besides that, light is involved in the chemical and biological processes taking place in our bodies, so proper lighting is indispensable to our well-being and health. In this chapter, light will be treated as electromagnetic radiation over a range of wavelengths that can be detected by our vision. The most important source of natural light is the Sun, from which the Earth receives light in form of direct radiation emitted from the Sun’s photosphere and as the diffuse radiation from the sky. Natural light in the outdoor and indoor environments is complemented by artificial light sources, predominantly electric lamps. The technological development of electric light sources over the past two decades has given us products that are capable of emitting light that is very similar to natural light, yet with a significantly reduced consumption of electrical energy.
Designing the visual comfort in buildings is a process of optimizing the illumination of the spaces as well as light perception in the way that building occupants are provided with a comfortable, highly productive and healthy living environment.
Visual Comfort and Architectural Lighting
Vision is the sense that provides us with the majority of information about the natural and built environments. The information received depends on the characteristics of the light source, the optical properties of the objects reflecting the incoming light, and the way we perceive light with our ability to see. Besides that, light is involved in the chemical and biological processes taking place in our bodies, so proper lighting is indispensable to our well-being and health. In this chapter, light will be treated as electromagnetic radiation over a range of wavelengths that can be detected by our vision. The most important source of natural light is the Sun, from which the Earth receives light in form of direct radiation emitted from the Sun’s photosphere and as the diffuse radiation from the sky. Natural light in the outdoor and indoor environments is complemented by artificial light sources, predominantly electric lamps. The technological development of electric light sources over the past two decades has given us products that are capable of emitting light that is very similar to natural light, yet with a significantly reduced consumption of electrical energy.
Designing the visual comfort in buildings is a process of optimizing the illumination of the spaces as well as light perception in the way that building occupants are provided with a comfortable, highly productive and healthy living environment.
Visual Comfort and Architectural Lighting
Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering
Medved, Sašo (Autor:in)
02.10.2021
80 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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TIBKAT | Nachgewiesen 8.1994-vol 31, no 6 (Nov/Dec 2017) ; damit Erscheinen eingestellt