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

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

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.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 2002 Light and lighting conference: comfort and efficiency within interior and exterior lighting systems
• 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 29, 2021
• Publisher: Comitetul National Roman de Iluminat (CNRI)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• 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