366 Design proposal for pleasurable light atmosphere in hospital wards Lone STIDSEn PhD. fellow *, Email: ls@civil.aau.dk Poul Henning KIRKEGAARD Associated professor, PhD* , Email: phk@civil.aau.dk Anna Marie FISKER Associated professor, PhD ,**, Email:isker@create.dk Jakob SABRA Research assistant**, Email: jsabra07@student.aau.dk *Aalborg University, Department of Civil Engineering, Sohngaardsholmvej 57,9000 Aalborg, Denmark ** Aalborg University, Department of Architecture and design, Gammel Torv 6, 9000 Aalborg ABSTRACT When constructing and designing Danish hospitals for the future, patients, staff and guests are in focus. It is found important to have a starting point in healing architecture and create an environment with knowledge of users sensory and functionally needs and looks at how hospital wards can support patients’ experience or maybe even have a positive inluence on the recovery proc- ess. Thus at a general level, it is a crucial task to investigate how aspects such as the design of the environment, arts, lights, sounds can support and improve the patients’ recovery rate and the satisfaction of staff and guests in the future hospital. This paper introduce the concept of atmosphere based on the theory of Gernot Böhmes and it is dealing with the effect of light in experiencing atmosphere, looking at the importance having a holistic approach to lighting design. The paper displays important design parameters for achieving pleasurable light atmosphere in hospital wards and outlines a speciic design proposal for an experimental case study in a hospital ward. Keywords: Light atmosphere, lighting design, lighting qualities, 1. INTRODUCTION Although there is strong evidence based research on physical, biological impacts on humans in lighting design. Veitch [1], Knez [2], Foqué [3], Loe [4] and there are several architectural works incorporating pleasurable light atmosphere such as Zumthor [5] and Wright [6]. But there seems to be a gap between the architectural theory and architectural practice of lighting design. It is our hypothesis that architects and designers have a common knowledge of the know- ing the importance of having inspiring surroundings and knows why environments should maintain sensory qualities and atmosphere. Architecture as Therme vals by peter Zumthor and “home and Studio” by Frank Lloyd Wright are among others architects who elaborated their architectural works with atmospheric theories and they are both empha-