View Quality Assessment: A Pilot Study of Field Methods

This paper presents findings from a workshop evaluating a series of views in a variety of settings by a group of daylighting experts. An explorative approach was used to identify issues and testing methods that might be useful in future research. The workshop was carried out on 15-17.06.2022 in Trondheim, Norway, and was supported by Daylight Academy. The participants visited nine rooms with views of varied content (streets, buildings, water, garden, and forest), complexity and viewing distance. They used a wide variety of methods, survey with quantitative and qualitative questions, hand drawings and photography. Subsequently, daylight simulations have been made. In addition, neurocognitive tests have been carried out in two of the rooms. While this booklet presents the results at the level of a single location, the forthcoming research paper with the same title will include more results across the locations, academic discourse about the view quality and will include the results from cognitive tests done during the second day of the workshop.