Assistant Professor Siobhan Rockcastle (architecture) and Associate Professor Kyuho Ahn (interior architecture) have been awarded the 2022 Francis Bronet Innovation Award for their proposal, ‘The Impact of lighting design on occupant perception and behavior in a healthcare environment: an experiment in virtual reality.’ This work will commence in the summer of 2022 and run through the spring of 2023 and will support an experiment in Virtual Reality with a dedicated student research assistant. The Francis Bronet Innovation Award is given each year by the University of Oregon College of Design Dean and supports $4,500 in associated research costs.
Monthly Archives: May 2022
Siobhan Rockcastle & Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg to present webinar on Daylight through PG&E Energy Centers
Looking for an update on daylighting control in high-performance buildings? Join us May 19 for an intermediate level webinar where Siobhan Rockcastle and Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg will discuss the benefits daylight provides, including occupant health, well-being and visual interest. They’ll address how daylight holds the power to transform buildings for improved health and reduced energy consumption.
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Editorial article on view quality published in LEUKOS
Window views have been shown to have positive effects on occupants’ health, well-being and productivity. However, we lack consensus on a unified definition for window view quality and assessment methods. In response, we defined window view quality as the quality of the visual connection to the outdoors that satisfies building occupants, and its primary components: content, access, clarity. We also identified research needs in a position statement signed by 55 experts. The statement is publicly available here.
This publication was co-authored by Siobhan Rockcastle and more than 50 other expert researchers in the field of lighting and view analysis.