VISUAL COMFORT FOR LIVING SPACE BETWEEN QUALITY AND AMOUNT OF NATURAL LIGHT

“We do not see light, we see with light” Edwin Land’s words summarize, hermetically, what science has shown for several centuries through increasingly complex theories and experiments in search of the physical nature of light. The complexity of physical phenomena that characterizes the light is inversely proportional to the naturalness with which the human eye has adapted over time as the outside world knowledge organ through the sense of sight. Light has always been considered almost an abstract and mysterious entity that has the ability to penetrate anywhere by keeping its invisible nature manifesting itself as an effect on the body from which it is reflected but never to perceive its consistency. “Yet direct, indirect and reflected, light, which possesses such intrinsic interiority, needs other matter to be tangible and becoming what it is, only when it touches something solid [a body, a construction] when it strokes, strikes, sculpts its presence on a wall. Cities are unveiled in the shadows thrown by buildings. What colour is light? The colours on which it is laying”. [1] Daniel Libeskind’s assertion reaffirms once again the concept previously mentioned, focusing even more on the “material” meaning that can have light in its invisibility. […]