USER’S DAYLIGHT PERCEPTION IN THE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS: DAYLIGHT ASSESSMENT IN THE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS OF DURRES WATERFRONT

Abstract

This research emphasizes the presence of daylight in architecture as an essential element of experiencing it. Spatial experience and its perception can be reached by the existence of light and its distribution. We treated daylight in this research not only as a factor affecting building design but also as a factor that effects the user’s satisfaction. Light is very important as it can influence human being’s perception, lifestyle, and behavior the same way it influences space shape and size. So, the study focuses on the contribution that daylight has on the interior and exterior design of the building to understand the relation of light with the building and the dweller. Moreover, thinking the impact that it has on dweller’s life and the way they grasp the interior, the research investigates the way that light penetrates inside a closed space and how an opening/ window can give meaning to a certain area. Through onsite investigations, interviews with the dwellers and software analysis the aim of this research is to bring once more into attention the “Light” as a tool for experience the “Space”, the way how it affects visual perception and to give openings a wider meaning than just being a window. It quantifies daylight parameters in the dwellings and overlooks its quantitative aspects on dwellers. The outcomes give answer to the important question on how can facilitate in space-dweller relationship. Motivated by the results, the study relates both architecture and daylight to a decision-making process.