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SEE J Archit Des. 2022 Oct 20; 10064:1-4. 1
Scientific Foundation SPIROSKI, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
South East European Journal of Architecture and Design
Volume 2022; Article ID 10064, 4 pages
http://doi.org/10.3889/seejad.2022.10064
Architecture
Daylight, Definition, Interpretation and Application Today
Aleksandar Radevski*, Bojan Karanakov, Dimitar Papasterevski
Faculty of Architecture, Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, bul. Partizanski odredi 24, Skopje, Republic of
Macedonia
Citation: Radevski A, Karanakov B, Papasterevski D. Daylight,
Definition, Interpretation and Application Today. SEE J Archit
Des. 2022 Oct 20; 10064:1-4.
http://doi.org/10.3889/seejad.2022.10064
Key words: Light; Visual perception; History of lighting; And
God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light
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Correspondence: Aleksandar Radevski, Faculty of
Architecture, Ss Cyril and Methodius University, bul. Partizanski
odredi 24, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. E-mail:
papasterevski.dimitar@arh.ukim.edu.mk
Received: 16-Sep-2022; Revised: 12-Oct-2022; Accepted:
14-Oct-2022; Published: 20-Oct-2022
Copyright: © 2022 Aleksandar Radevski, Bojan Karanakov,
Dimitar Papasterevski. This is an open-access article
distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and
source are credited.
Competing Interests: The author have declared that no
competing interests exist.
Abstract
Light is a universal medium that illuminates our world. It is the key to discovering the mysteries of the universe,
of the spiritual and physical dimensions of the human past, present and future. The history of light and its impact
on our world is almost infinite, and through it we search for the origin of life and civilization. It is a story that
starts with the beginning of the world and goes on all the way to the development of quantum physics. It unifies
and intertwines the art, science, architecture, religion, and philosophy in time and space.
Introduction
Daylight is the beginning…
The Evolution of people is based on the
conditions of natural light. The Sun as a source of day
light, has been respected by many religions as a home
of Gods or as a Deity. In the course of history,
architects-built objects for the Sun. They did it in order
to enable god respect of Sun, as well as to tracethe
route to heaven. There was a belief that the lit objects
could prevent various illnesses. [Imhotep]
The treatment of lighting, as well as its cultural
and symbolic meaning, from the aspect of rational and
emotional approach, were often changed being pro and
against. Light is the unique immaterial and invisible
element having the same treatment as building
material, an element which hasan impact on the choice
of a home/shelter, as well as while defining the wall
masses of the closed volume.
Day light is a base for the existence of floral
world, but the effect of daylight on certain organic
functions of animals and men is also important, as well
as for the metabolism and hormone regulation.Light is
elixir giving life. It is essential to provide day light for
maintaining the psychic health which urges thinking,
brings joy and makes us feel grateful for our own
experience.
Day light as one of the segments in the process
of drawing the plans and exploiting of objects is the
basic element which directly influences health condition
of people living in that space. According to Christopher
Alexander et al. [1], people by their nature are
phototropic. They move depending on light and when
static, they orientate themselves towards light. The
maximum use of daylight, on which the biological
rhythm of human organism depends, as well as the
health and the working ability of the users, it penetrates
into the space, through light openings and contributes
to the visual enlargement of the interior and connection
with the exterior surroundings.
Through the openings, it is made possible for
the exterior dynamics of the surrounding to penetrate
into the closed within the space. Unlike the artificial
light, which can be sent towards any point in the
interior, and its intensity to be controlled depending on
the wishes of the users, the use of daylight is
characterized by quite different approach because of