International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT) ISSN: 2249 – 8958, Volume-9 Issue-3, February, 2020 881 Retrieval Number: C5362029320/2020©BEIESP DOI: 10.35940/ijeat.C5362.029320 Published By: Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication Abstract: Energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emission are issues that mostly been considered to be solved vitally. As the first layer of the building component, building’s façade function more than just a building’s barrier but it acts as to absorb the necessary natural elements from outside as well as function as an effective interventions. DSF possesses the efficient ability in enhancing the building performance especially on day light. Most of the research studies on DSF focus on the thermal and ventilation performance while study on the day light performance should be conducted since day light acts as the premier energy to the building’s performance. This paper used the literature review as the main source of this study and tabulated through series of tables and pie chart. Result shows that research on day light performance in DSF potentially create various efficient impacts to the building’s performances. This study also identifies the contribution among researchers and practitioners where each of them has their own intention that indicate the benefits on adapting DSF to a building design. Type of climates, cavity width, light shelves, glass characteristics and type of DSF are some of the important elements that need to be considering in producing an efficient daylight performance. This study reveals that more research needs to be conduct among researchers and practitioners on the daylight in DSF due to the various benefits to the buildings and occupants. Keywords: Day lighting, façade, DSF, research I. INTRODUCTION Sustainable building design is not a building style as a promotion among researcher and practitioner to show their contribution and ability. Most of the people in the building’s construction industry as well as the academician agreed that sustainable building design can assimilates with human and nature to produce a sustainable living lifestyle. Due to the numerous negative impacts to the environment that produced by buildings in the construction industry, rapid movements emerged to create an efficient and environmental friendly building’s design. Carbon emission is one of the major problem that produced by buildings compared to the other components in the industry. Besides, the unsustainable Revised Manuscript Received on February 04, 2020. * Correspondence Author M. H. M. Zin is with the Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, 43600 National University of Malaysia, Malaysia (phone: 012-9446404; e-mail: bay_sir_nar86@yahoo.com). M. Jamil is with the Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, 43600 National University of Malaysia, Malaysia (e-mail: maslinajamil@ukm.edu.my). N. L. N. Ibrahim is with the Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, 43600 National University of Malaysia, Malaysia (e-mail: nlni@yahoo.com). A. S. M. Tazilan is with the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, 43600 National University of Malaysia, Malaysia (e-mail: azimintazilan@ukm.edu.my). building design produces more on the energy consumption hence create various negative impacts to the human and environment. Concran [3] stated that the main contributor for CO 2 emission is building and consider as one of the main polluter to the environment compare to the others human made. A study done by Pomponi et al. [12] revealed that building’s façade function as the effective early protector which potentially reduce the CO 2 emission and energy consumption. Building’s façade also known as one of the crucial building’s components to control outdoor natural elements entering the interior building space. Known as one of the most important building components [11], façade acts as to absorb and protect the building. An efficient façade system needs to be apply which produce a sustainable building design as well as enhancing the environmental. Besides, sustainable facades are more than a barrier between interior and exterior where it functions as to create an active respond to the external environment and reduce energy consumption for a comfortable indoor space [1]. As one of the most important architectural element [18], DSF has a high quality to create a comfortable indoor space since it provides various advantages including to provide an effective day light. According to Aksamija [2], DSF consist of three main elements which are cavity gap that function for ventilation purposes, external and internal glass system. Rahmani et al. [14] defined DSF as a unique building’s façade system that equipped with a cavity space with various depths. DSF provides as an efficient multi functions building’s façade that can solve various issues on the building design performance. Hendricksen et al. [6] proved that DSF provides various solutions to the building design such as shading devices, heat remover, passive ventilation, day light penetrator and sound protector. However, research studies on daylight performance of DSF are very limited while daylight potentially can provide a comfortable environment for the building design [2] [13]. Most of the research are focus on the ventilation and thermal performance [10] compare to daylight. Daylight provides numerous benefits where it should be apply especially to produce the positive energy performance and reducing the electrical energy usage [8]. Ubbelohde [20] revealed that, daylight is consider as the major efficient method which contribute to reduce the electrical energy usage especially for the commercial building. Daylight also contributes to create a dynamic indoor environment for the occupant. Other than ventilation, the implementation of daylight can be utilized to reduce building’s energy consumption [7]. Day Lighting Research on Double Skin Façade (DSF) M. H. M. Zin, M. Jamil, N. L. N. Ibrahim, A. S. M. Tazilan