Impact of design characteristics of daylight elements to creating healthy internal environment for school buildings evaluation the status of schools in mosul city

Abstract

This research deals with the impact of design characteristics that create attractive and healthy internal environments for a school building, as one of the most important issues on evaluating the random position of a local school building in Mosul city northern Iraq. The daylight effects factors that support the efficiency of interiors in a school building was discussed in this work, Where, the specific quality of design characteristics related to building components and daylight elements classes were used. The study employed (Velux Daylight Visualizer – 2012) to design the research methodology in order to evaluate three school building types in Mosul city. The gained results of this study confirmed that the design properties related to the factors of daylight have effective role in creating healthy interiors and increase educational productivity. Also, the gained result of this study can be considered as a useful reference for architects, planner, landscape and researchers that they work in Mosul municipality. The objective of this paper is to determine the key design properties affecting to achieve healthy spatial environment, which are related to two main daylight factors. First the solarization average for building at all. Second the homogeneity of daylight at work surface in classroom space.