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Outside dynamics for daylightful indoors

Marilyne Andersen
2020
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Access to natural light – particularly precious in northern latitudes – greatly impacts how a building is experienced by its occupants. It affects their well-being, notably from their health and biological clock perspectives, but also their perceived visual and thermal comfort, or their emotional response. This lecture explores current research efforts reaching out to different fields of science to bring these considerations into the design of places of delightful – and daylightful – living.

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