Innovative Daylighting Techniques for Retrofitting in Educational Spaces

Abstract

Recently, many researchers have been interested in designing the buildings to get the benefit from daylight inside, which gives visual and thermal comfort and contributes to reducing cost and saves a lot of energy consumption for artificial lighting. But a few of them were interested in how to modify the designs of the existing educational spaces that did not receive daylight, which increases the consumption of these spaces for artificial lighting and gives a lack of a sense of visual and thermal comfort, and that is inconsistent with the principles of designing educational spaces that aim to reach the maximum visual comfort for the student, which helps in raising the performance of the student during the educational process.