A Window View Quality Assessment Framework
@article{Ko2020AWV, title={A Window View Quality Assessment Framework}, author={Won Hee Ko and Michael G. Kent and S. Schiavon and Brendon Levitt and Giovanni Betti}, journal={LEUKOS}, year={2020}, volume={18}, pages={268 - 293} }
ABSTRACT The views that windows provide from inside a building affect human health and well-being. Although window view is an important element of architecture, there is no established framework to guide its design. The literature is widely dispersed across different disciplinary fields, and there is a need to coalesce this information into a framework that can be applied into the building design. Based on the literature, we present a framework for what constitutes “view quality.” At the basis…
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