THE LIGHTING SYSTEMS’ AFFECTS ON STUDENTS

IN EDUCATIONAL SPACES

Lighting is an important tool or fact on the education and teaching stuff in educational organizations in order to pass this stage in a healthy way. If a good lighting system has been solved with a good organization of the educational space and by this way the quality of the space has been raised. In this stage there have been done researches about the understanding and learning of the students .

The Main Problems:The low quality lightings systems effects on students.

•The teacher and the students have controlling problem, because of the problems the perception of both students and the teachers. •The loss of the student productivity.•Concentration problems.•The problems of way finding, hard to see the signs. The wrong lighting of the environment and to be understood wrongly develop communicational problems.•Eyes getting dazzled because of the wrong windows and lighting system. Fluorescent lighting fixtures cause eye diseases because of wrong color and vibration. Also it causes headaches.•Especially adaptable lighting systems should be used in order for each aim of course.

•The lighting fixtures put on the board would make the people concentrate on the board with creating focal points.•The prevention of eye dazzling will affect the health of the student and their performance.•The right lighting system would create visual aesthetic and this comfortable space would attract student’s attention to the course.•The movement also could be done easily in the area as well as adding the control feeling in the area.•The appropriate color to read word characters are the global lighting or yellow light.

The humans psychologically prefer areas with openings especially they want to be close with the nature or want to have natural views. This preference comes from the human’s nature of to be in the nature and the need to feel comfortable.

•A good placement of lighting schemes in the class.

•E= Proposed Lightning Level•UGRL= Dazzle Limit•Ra= Minimum Light return

•Proposed Lightning in different Education Spaces.

Result:The design should be done according to have benefit on increasing the learning capabilities. The lighting done professionally well makes students feel comfortable and make them better. As a result the lighting system should not make any problem to the student which might be considered as serious problems to the students’ whole lives.

References: •Eğitim Kurumlarında Aydınlatma Sistemi: selçuk Atiş Marmara Üniversitesi•Benya, J.R., Lighting for School, Benya Lighting Design, 2001•www.designlights.com

CANAN ATILGAN26.05.2010

IAED 410 ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 2009-2010 SPRING SEMESTER PROGRAM

INST: Asst. Prof. Dr. Deniz HASIRCI