Abstract

The Autism school have a specific design’s requirements. Daylight is one of many important factors that help create comfort atmosphere for autistic children in school. Moreover, Autism Spectrum disorder (ASD) children tend to be easily distracted by their visual sensory. Most of them have very sensory sensitive against the use of direct fluorescent lighting. The study is aimed to investigate the required illuminance, skylight orientation, skylight opening for comfort lighting that suitable with Autism Children. The results showed certain skylight opening and orientation affect the glare free room, lighting and thermal comfort inside the classroom. The steps of research is as follows: (1) Study the optimum light and illuminance for classroom, (2) Study the size of the opening or skylight surfaces, and (3) Study the optimal skylight orientation and type. The result expected to meet the skylight requirement that help student with Autistic to get education to improve the quality of life and prepare to live independently.

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