Application of Advanced Lighting Systems in Buildings and Cities
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 June 2024 | Viewed by 148
Special Issue Editors
Interests: indoor environmental quality; daylighting and lighting design; visual comfort in buildings; indoor view quality; non-image-forming responses to ligh; performance-based design; generative design; building performance optimization; algorithmic design; energy efficiency in buildings; sustainable design; urban energy modeling; circular design; urban metabolism
Interests: building physics; indoor environment, thermal, daylighting and energy performance of buildings (laboratory and field experiments, modelling and simulation); sustainable and energy efficient materials and solutions; wind action and natural ventilation of buildings
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With its multifaceted dimensions, light plays a pivotal role in designing and shaping human habitats. As diurnal creatures, our exposure to both natural and artificial light significantly influences our health, productivity, mood, comfort, and overall well-being. Thus, adequately mediating and managing light conditions becomes paramount in designing humanized environments, particularly buildings and urban spaces.
Nonetheless, viewing and placing lighting design within the broader context of the imperative decarbonization of our built environment is crucial. Consequently, designing, deploying, and operating lighting systems is intricate and ill-defined, as it requires carefully considering multiple criteria, including visual comfort, energy efficiency, the health of building occupants and urban dwellers, and their physical and social well-being.
This Applied Sciences Special Issue aims to improve the design and application of advanced lighting systems in buildings and urban spaces. Advanced lighting systems are lighting-related systems that mediate light conditions, either through natural/passive or active means, to balance and improve the performance of different energy, comfort, health, well-being, and social indicators. The development of relevant performance indicators and correspondent analysis methods and tools is critical to the design and assessment of such systems. Thus, this Special Issue aims to gather both the top research related to the design and deployment of advanced lighting systems and the scientific aspects that are or could be essential to their design and application, such as the investigation of human response to light conditions (e.g., visual comfort, effects of light on melanopsin, and serotonin hormonal production) or novel (day)light simulation workflows and indicators.
Dr. Luis Santos
Dr. Maria da Glória Gomes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- double dynamic lighting
- non-image-forming response to light
- circadian lighting
- light-redirecting fenestration systems
- (day)lighting and energy efficiency
- indoor/outdoor visual comfort
- light pollution
- outdoor lighting
- design and operation of dynamic lighting or shading-related systems
- lighting/shading systems and indoor view quality
- (day)lighting simulation for buildings and urban spaces
