Abstract
Nowadays, an increasing number of contemporary architects use daylight as the primary design feature and occasionally as an argument for implementing new way of building design. In spite of that, most of the scientific research on daylight in architecture are frequently focused on quantitative approaches and disregard the early steps of the design process. Based on this problem, this paper presents a study of those factors taken into account by contemporary architects for the consideration of daylight during all steps of their design process. The case study includes thirty houses designed by twelve contemporary architects which were chosen from a reference book. The data analysis was conducted via a qualitative research methodology namely grounded theory. Three levels of coding were applied to make it possible the transition from the collected data to a representative theoretical model. The findings of this research confirm the importance of daylight in the design process of contemporary architects. Moreover, daylight consideration during the contemporary design practice is impacted by three main factors: the designer’s culture, the site’s luminous characteristics and the design tools. This research is part of a larger research project which tries to elaborate an architectural design theory of contemporary residential building as first step toward a global design theory of contemporary architectural practices.
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Theme
Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design
KEYWORDS
GROUNDED THEORY, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, DAYLIGHT CONSIDERATION, DESIGN FACTORS, CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
