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How does the role of natural light play a huge part on the human health, mood and behavior of humans? Has natural lighting always had a huge impact on these attributes? If that is the case, why is that natural lighting not considered as a principal factor in every design now? Has artificial lighting put natural lighting on the back foot in every design ? These are some of the questions this paper addresses and tries to understand the role of natural light from the past and how that has evolved into the present.

Natural lighting has always been considered as a fundamental principle of design. It is not simply to brighten a space, but the ability of natural lighting goes beyond its primary role. Taking into example about the past and how the play of light has had an impact on the people in all dimensions. Day lighting has played an important role in architecture for centuries. Since the first societies, light has had a typical part straightforwardly related to the sacrosanct, religious and cosmologic convictions. Thus, this part will be clear in the religious structures taking a heading part in the creation of revering and stylish structures of a religion. (Antonakaki, 2007) Yet light will be a persuasive component not just in the profound connection between the adherents and the religion however additionally in the spatial connection between the person and the building. Spatial structures build the religious environment, while light re-builds the religious experience. (Antonakaki, 2007)
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...nce on simulated light, and the over-brightening issues that it prompted, proceeded until day lighting once again got to be a real center of designers in 1995. (Bristotle Daylighting Systems, 2014)

The topic of natural lighting is something that all of us are familiar about, but at hindsight we probably haven’t understood the significance of natural light that it has had from the past. It was much more than just lighting up a space. As designers, we lack the understanding of the deeper meaning of what lighting can contribute to the space as well as to the occupants. Besides its functional and emotional components, lighting also has a non-visual, biological effect on humans and it is imperative we make use of the natural resource we have in abundance.

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