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Sunlight and dwellers' emotions towards home: a phenomenological approach.

Belakehal, Azeddine; Tabet Aoul, Kheira; Bennadji, Amar

Authors

Azeddine Belakehal

Kheira Tabet Aoul

Amar Bennadji



Abstract

This paper aims to study the impact of sunlight and daylight on the affective emotions of the dwellers towards their homes. The approach used for this purpose is phenomenological and is based on three concepts : homeliness or familarity, appropriation, and poetic sublimation. In this work, the home is considered as the behavioural setting of this research and two case studies are investigated: traditional houses of both Algiers Casbah in the coastal area of Algeria and the old city of Ghardaia in the northern part of its Sahara desert. The preliminary outcomes presented in this paper are part of a broader research including people's reactions and attitudes, of hot dry regions and of Islamic culture, towards various daylighting and sunlighting strategies in different working and living spaces.

Citation

BELAKEHAL, A., TABET AOUL, K. and BENNADJI, A. 2002. Sunlight and dwellers' emotions towards home: a phenomenological approach. In Proceedings of the 2002 Light and lighting conference: comfort and efficiency within interior and exterior lighting systems, 28-30 November 2002, Bucharest, Romania. Bucharest: Comitetul National Roman de Iluminat (CNRI), pages 35-42.

Conference Name 2002 Light and lighting conference: comfort and efficiency within interior and exterior lighting systems
Conference Location Bucharest, Romania
Start Date Nov 28, 2002
End Date Nov 30, 2002
Acceptance Date Nov 28, 2002
Publication Date Dec 31, 2002
Deposit Date Mar 29, 2021
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Publisher Comitetul National Roman de Iluminat (CNRI)
Pages 35-42
Keywords Daylight in architecture; Natural light in architecture; Architecture and psychology; Domestic architecture
Public URL https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/911726

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