This project aims to develop a methodology and technology for evaluating emotional responses to daylight to help architects design healthier environments. With stakeholders and our industrial partners, we will first curate a design toolkit. This will inform the development of a computer plug-in, which will be embedded into an existing BPS tool (e.g. VELUX’s Daylight Visualizer), empowering architects to empathise beyond their personal and technical knowledge of daylighting. The proposal uses co-design methods and immersive technologies to capture diverse and inclusive range of issues with regards to daylighting practice. Building on the previous feasibility and pilot study, this proposal will contribute to defining the condition of mind that expresses emotional satisfaction with daylight. We hypothesise that subjective evaluation of daylight in space can be systematically predicted. The project will develop a daylight indexing model that can predict percentage of emotional (dis)satisfaction. The model then can be translated to an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and placed into and enrich future daylight design tools that to date have largely dealt with directly measurable physical criteria.
Details of the project will be published in 2027. If you would like to discuss any aspects of the project or explore collaboration opportunities, please contact us.