Lighting education for architects, the barriers and challenges: a survey of architecture students (original) (raw)

Daylight Within a Room in the Eyes of Architecture Students

2019

A questionnaire was conducted to investigate how 140 architecture students apprise daylight conditions within the classrooms. The participants were requested to evaluate the luminous environment and their luminous comfort. They were also asked about light preferences and knowledge on daylight metrics and regulations. The students’ subjective appraisals results were compared with the experts’ assessment and the on-site illuminance measurements. Later on, the students had to carry out a series of daylight indices simulations summarizing daylight conditions in their private rooms (a user’s experience), and in a room, within a building, they had been designing (a designer’s experience). The perception of the luminous environment was analysed against participants’ comprehension of daylight simulations data. The issues students encountered during the daylight indicators analysis suggested that more coherent daylight education should be offered for future architects.

A study about daylighting knowledge and education in Europe. Results from the first phase of the DAYKE project

Architectural Science Review, 2019

This paper presents selected results from the first stage of DAYKE (Daylight Knowledge in Europe), a 3phase project that investigates the knowledge on daylighting in buildings among architecture students and practitioners across Europe. Subjective judgements from 561 students from 8 architecture universities in the EU, collected through two surveys in 2018. The key findings are: (i) the spatial distribution of comfort and mood in the classrooms varied depending on sky conditions and distance from windows; (ii) the average daylight factor DF m showed a good agreement with subjective judgements on the amount of daylight in a space; (iii) experts and non-experts provided similar judgements on the perception of a daylit environment; (iv) a general lack of knowledge about daylighting metrics, regulations, assessment tools and software was highlighted. Furthermore a difficulty in implementing daylighting into the design practice is also identified.

First Outcomes of an Investigation about Daylighting Knowledge and Education in Europe

—DAYKE (Daylighting Knowledge in Europe) is a project to investigate the daylighting knowledge and skills of Architecture students and practitioners from different countries within the European Union. This paper introduces the first stage of the research and provides results from a direct survey taken by 161 students from seven schools of Architecture: two in Italy, one in The Netherlands, two in Poland and two in Spain. The results indicate significant national differences in preference and perception of daylit spaces. They also show a lack of knowledge about daylighting metrics and regulations among the respondents. Although the research is undergoing, the preliminary data analysis indicates that there is a need for enhancing the daylight knowledge among future architects.

The need for lighting education

Proc. SPIE, 2002

It is amazing that in a world now dominated by light -a world that is absolutely dependent upon light -that there is almost no lighting education. In a few countries of the world there exist tertiary level lighting programs but these can be counted on the fingers of two hands. Developments in lighting technology have produced a range of design tools that can lead to improved and energy-efficient lighting. However, most of this technology is "harder" to use than traditional technology, emphasising the need for not only improved lighting education but for its initiation. This paper discusses the need for education and uses the example of the University of Sydney program as a possible basis for others to use. It also examines how it is being delivered in Singapore.

The Role of Artificial Lighting in Architectural Design: A Literature Review

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2021

Artificial lighting design is an integral part of the building design process. However, little or no emphasis is usually placed on its importance in the initial design process, as lighting is often understood as merely the idea of illuminating spaces. This paper investigated the evolved variety of roles artificial lighting plays in architectural designs in the context of psychology and communication. Data was compiled from existing knowledge on artificial lighting techniques, tools and practices to develop a literature for better understanding of the greater capabilities of artificial lighting within the urban context. The study focused mainly on the use of artificial lighting in the 21st century, in a bid to capture the diverse roles artificial lighting plays in the built environment in recent times. The study is a qualitative research that relied strictly on data from secondary sources. A total of twenty-eight relevant publications were sourced using Google search engine via the i...

The daylit area – Correlating architectural student assessments with current and emerging daylight availability metrics

Building and Environment, 2012

This paper proposes a method for testing current and emerging daylight availability metrics such as daylighting factor, daylight autonomy, useful daylight illuminance and LEED 3.0 requirements against building occupant assessments of a daylit space. During spring 2011 the method was tested as a classroom exercise by 60 architectural students enrolled in two graduate-level building science courses in the 2nd floor studio space of le Corbusier's Carpenter Center in Cambridge, MA, USA. The results from this test yielded that the Lighting Measurement protocol for Spatial Daylight Autonomy, that is current being developed by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) daylighting metrics committee, reproduced the student assessments of the daylit area in the space more reliably than the other tested daylight availability metrics. These findings are preliminary and still need to be validated and refined in other spaces. Apart from providing valuable data points for scientific experiments, the method also has substantial educational value as a teaching exercise for architectural students to develop an intuitive understanding of contemporary daylight performance metrics, as well as a feeling of how their personal lighting preferences compare to these metrics.

The Use of Daylight in Architecture with an Emphasis on Reducing Energy Consumption

2013

The reduction of energy consumption by using daylight in architecture is the main purpose of this study. In general, light is the most visible renewable energy. An important key question is that what are the ways for energy saving specially in lighting. More importantly, how much energy the buildings dwellers should save and how much others should save. Since recently there is very little attention on the use of daylight and solar energy. Now, the question is that whether the natural light of day can be used for different tasks inside of space and daylight can be regarded as a factor for energy saving? The answer is that the natural light of day can be effectively used for different purposes and in the most cases it brings energy saving. In addition, it ends up with satisfaction of the people in their life and work environment. It does not mean that light can be used for any purpose and natural daylight is one of several factors that a designer has. As it becomes popular, it can be ...

Out of “touch”? − An experiential pedagogical approach to daylighting in architecture and interior design education

SHS Web of Conferences

A new challenge is emerging. Contemporary built environment pedagogy demands engagement with both analogue and digital tools for simulation and verification of lit architectural environments. The use of analogue tools within architectural design education grasps onto the historically valued craftsmanship of drawing and physical models to measure, represent and understand our lit environment ambiance. Digital tools can provide efficient, simultaneous and precise verification of lit architectural interior space through 3D computer modelling and calculation software. However, the understanding and representation of daylit scenarios is becoming more numerically complex as lighting metrics and software gain in accuracy and dynamic range. With the majority of easily accessible software tools focussing on numerical verification, the ephemeral ambience that daylight in particular creates in interior architectural spaces is becoming ever more difficult to grasp for the architectural design s...