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Digital Framework To Optimize Visual Comfort Using Kinetic Facades, Fatima Belok, Mostafa Khalifa, Ibtihal El-Bastawissi, Mohamad Hanafi
Digital Framework To Optimize Visual Comfort Using Kinetic Facades, Fatima Belok, Mostafa Khalifa, Ibtihal El-Bastawissi, Mohamad Hanafi
Architecture and Planning Journal (APJ)
Visual comfort is one of many aspects of human comfort that should be considered in architectural spaces. Visual comfort is an architectural necessity and could be achieved and optimized in spaces through controlling facades’ opening. This could be achieved by applying kinetic facades, which is one of the trends in the field of responsive architecture. However, the research’ s aim is optimizing visual comfort using kinetic facades in educational spaces. This optimization will improve the environmental quality of the educational space. In this research architects will achieve easily more effective kinetic facades to have better visual comfort by enhancing daylight …
The Impact Of Visual Environment On Illuminance Levels Preferencescross-Culture Case Study On Omani And Portuguese Forts In Oman, Hesham Eissa
Architecture and Planning Journal (APJ)
The objective of this research is to investigate the cross-cultural differences with regard to the illuminance levels preferences. Illuminance level preferences are directly related to and based on visual environment impact that differs according to different geographical locations. Therefore, the cross-cultural difference is a common term that relates directly to the different visual environment of each region. Toward this aim a field study carried out a comparison of daylight illuminance levels of internal spaces, in a definite region (Muscat, Oman), built and used by two groups of people from different climatic and cultural backgrounds. Forts and citadels built and inhabited …