Background: The use of daylight in offices has become an effective strategy to improve the quality of indoor space and energy efficiency. There is enough potential to have daylight autonomy in Kerman as a city with more than 300 sunny days a year. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between facades configuration and the amount of daylight in office buildings of Kerman. ...

Refurbished heritage buildings usually lack in meeting the required standards defined for new function especially when reused as educational buildings. Therefore, they are equipped with different post-occupancy retrofit strategies to achieve an acceptable level of environmental quality and energy demand. Daylight distribution natural light is a critical issue spaces, given that low illuminance ...

Good daylighting design in buildings not only provides a comfortable luminous environment, but also delivers energy savings and comfortable and healthy environments for building occupants. The importance of using daylight in educational buildings is because of the synchrony of operating hours of the school and daylight plenitude the sky. Daylight improves environmental quality and saves energy ...

background: this paper investigated the effect of daylight on morning and night melatonin, subjective general health using ghq questionnaire, sleepiness and alertness on elderly who lived in nursing houses. methods: nineteen nursing home residents participated voluntarily. they exposed to daylight from 9 to 10 a.m. and from 4 to 5 p.m. for 6 wk. the level of melatonin in the morning and at nigh...

Typical daylight extends from blue (morning sky) to orangey red (evening sky) and is represented mathematically as the Daylight Locus in color space. In this study, we investigate the impact of this daylight variation on human color vision. Thirty-eight color normal human observers performed an asymmetric color match in the near peripheral visual field. Unique hues were identified using a namin...