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C. Sarikaya, U. Pont, A. Mahdavi:
"Home office illumination: The undiscovered country";
Poster: Vienna Young Scientist Symposium 2019, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria; 2019-06-13 - 2019-06-14; in: "VSS - Vienna Young Scientist Symposium June 13-14, 2019", K. Ehrmann, H. Mansouri Khosravi (ed.); (2019), ISBN: 978-3-9504017-9-0; 46 - 47.

Sufficient and satisfactory illumination levels are considered to be of utmost importance for health, well-being, and productivity of occupants of buildings. As such, the consideration of illumination aspects in the framework of building planning and interior design is playing a key role in contemporary work of architects. Moreover, there are a number of international standards as well as national laws and guidelines in most countries that define minimum thresholds for illumination, glare avoidance and daylight penetration of spaces (e.g. [1]). Building planning needs to consider these regulations. Thus, most planning processes for larger office facilities encompass a consultant for lighting aspects. This is not necessarily true for other planning tasks, as fewer regulations exist for other building usages, especially residential use. In the case of small scale home offices situated within residential units, regularly the occupants, who often are non-specialists in lighting design, design their workplaces themselves. Little is known about the in-fact lighting conditions in such home-office places, especially those that could be named "micro offices". Thus, the present contribution literally sheds light upon this topic by presenting the results of recent efforts pertaining to investigate into a set of small scale home offices in Izmir, Turkey.

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Sufficient and satisfactory illumination levels are considered to be of utmost importance for health, well-being, and productivity of occupants of buildings. As such, the consideration of illumination aspects in the framework of building planning and interior design is playing a key role in contemporary work of architects. Moreover, there are a number of international standards as well as national laws and guidelines in most countries that define minimum thresholds for illumination, glare avoidance and daylight penetration of spaces (e.g. [1]). Building planning needs to consider these regulations. Thus, most planning processes for larger office facilities encompass a consultant for lighting aspects. This is not necessarily true for other planning tasks, as fewer regulations exist for other building usages, especially residential use. In the case of small scale home offices situated within residential units, regularly the occupants, who often are non-specialists in lighting design, design their workplaces themselves. Little is known about the in-fact lighting conditions in such home-office places, especially those that could be named "micro offices". Thus, the present contribution literally sheds light upon this topic by presenting the results of recent efforts pertaining to investigate into a set of small scale home offices in Izmir, Turkey.