Abstract
The lighting environment is a factor that significantly affects the physical and psychological aspects of occupants of a building. In particular, educational facilities should be designed to provide adequate natural lighting because it has a profound impact on students’ health and learning performance. Although environmental certification systems include evaluation items for improving the indoor light environment, there is a lack of evaluation criteria regarding the corresponding issue of glare. Therefore, this study aims to help visualize areas where indoor glare problems occur, and to improve the evaluation scale of discomfort glare in environmental certification systems. A standard high school classroom in Seoul was analyzed to study glare issues in the educational space. DIVA for Rhino—Grasshopper, a light environment simulation program based on Radiance and DAYSIM program, was used to obtain reliable light analysis simulation results, and the daylight glare probability (DGP) measure was used to calculate discomfort glare. The results of the simulation and analysis suggest this is a method for improving glare evaluation measures that are lacking in indoor environmental certification standards. The visualized frequency of discomfort glare data is useful for planning the layout of the indoor space, opening, and shading design of a building to prevent glare problems.
Highlights
The lighting environment is a factor that has a significant influence on the body and psychology of building occupants [1]
The incidence of discomfort glare was high in February, November, and December because discomfort glare mostly occurred in winter
From November to February, the space area ratio exceeding 30% of the occurrence rate for discomfort glare was constant at 30% to 31%
Summary
The lighting environment is a factor that has a significant influence on the body and psychology of building occupants [1]. The lighting environment has a substantial effect on students because they spend a large portion of their school days working under a combination of artificial and natural lighting. Natural light still acts on students’ health and learning performance in indoor environments. It is necessary to obtain proper illumination through natural lighting to satisfy certain quantitative aspects of light and to meet qualitative elements of light, such as considering the occurrence of glare [2,3,4,5,6]. Educational facilities should be designed to offer a comfortable light environment by providing adequate illumination in the interior space. It is important to design elements, such as windows and shades, to prevent unpleasant glare occurring [7,8]. Green building certification systems include evaluation items for improving the indoor light environment. There is no standard or clear criteria for the prevention of discomforting glare [9]
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