Influence of design elements on response to window views

Kristl, Živa (author), Markelj, Jernej (author), Fošner, Ajda (author), Zbašnik-Senegačnik, Martina (author)

In order to protect natural environment and farmland, the sustainability goals support inward city growth. The distance between the buildings is getting smaller, and the window view is restricted by the surrounding buildings. However, this approach increases urban density, which is especially challenging in residential areas, where access of daylight and the quality of window views is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve. The window view in connection with the social infrastructure can be considered above all in relation to public space (squares, parks) but also art & culture (architecture and heritage), long-term resilience (maintenance, adaptation to climate changes), information (view of activities, weather) and other. Very importantly, several studies imply that it affects health and wellbeing. The recent research implies that the quality of the visual information obtained with the help of window view depends on the features in the motive and variety of elements. Many researchers point to the impact of window view on peoples’ well-being and define the responses triggered by certain motives. For instance, urban environment has a smaller restorative effect than the natural environment, and the view of the urban environment, such as pedestrian streets, a bus station and a busy road, cause increased heart rate. Not all motives are equally attractive when viewed through windows. For instance, as shown by the results of our previous study, respondents reacted more positively to views that contained greenery than to views without it. When studying the features of motives, their characteristics or information should be taken into account. In this study, we continue the work and focus on architectural elements of window views. For the purposes of this study only multistorey buildings in residential neighbourhoods were observed. A representative sample of façades in close-up view was selected for the analysis of window views. These façades were chosen to encompass a selection of variously designed and maintained façades, with varying composition features. The typical variables in the urban views are building facades of various degree of maintenance, compositional quality, surface quality, activity dynamics and complexity.

• Language: English
• Keywords: social infrastructure, daylight, window view, descriptive statistics
• Typology: 1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution
• Organization: FA - Faculty of Architecture
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 178-186
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-169571
• UDC: 711.64:551.521.16
• COBISS.SI-ID: 221611011
• Publication date in RUL: 04.06.2025

Record is a part of a monograph

• Title: Book of proceedings : 9th Conference of Interdisciplinary Research on Real Estate
• Editors: Bojan Grum, Mihajlo Zinoski, Alenka Temeljotov Salaj, Matic Grum
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: Inštitut za nepremičninske vede
• Year: 2024
• ISBN: 978-961-95781-7-9
• COBISS.SI-ID: 216785667

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: socialna infrastruktura, dnevna svetloba, pogled skozi okno, opisna statistika