The views that windows provide from inside a building affect human health and well-being. Although window view is an important element of architecture, there is no established framework to guide its design. The literature is widely dispersed across different disciplinary fields, and there is a need to coalesce this information into a framework that can be applied into the building design. Based on the literature, we present a framework for what constitutes 'view quality.' At the basis of our framework, we propose three primary variables: View Content (the assessment of visual features seen in the window view), View Access (the measure of how much of the view can be seen through the window from the occupant's position), and View Clarity (the assessment of how clear the view content appears in the window view when seen by an occupant). Each variable was thematically derived from different sources including daylighting standards, green certification systems, and scientific research studies. We describe the most important characteristics of each variable, and from our review of the literature, we propose a conceptual index that can evaluate the quality of a window view. While discussing the index, we summarize design recommendations for integrating these three variables into the building process and identify knowledge gaps for future research.
翻译:窗口视图是建筑中的一个重要要素,但没有既定的框架来指导其设计。文献广泛分布于不同的学科领域,需要将这一信息整合到一个可以应用于建筑设计的框架中。根据文献,我们提出了一个“视觉质量”的构成框架。 在我们的框架基础上,我们提出了三个主要变量:查看内容(对窗口视图中视觉特征的评估),查看访问(通过窗口从占居者的位置可以看到多少观点的衡量),以及View Clarity(对窗口视图内容在被占居者看到时的清晰度的评估),每个变量都来自不同的来源,包括日光化标准、绿色认证系统和科学研究研究。我们描述了每个变量的最重要特征,我们从对文献的审查中提出了能够评估窗口视图质量的概念性指数。我们在讨论索引时,我们总结了将这三个变量纳入构建过程中的设计建议,并确定了未来研究的知识差距。