Belysning för barn i biblioteksmiljö
The purpose of this thesis is to create conditions in order to plan lighting to a library room after children's needs and wishes, and to gain deeper knowledge about how children experience different lighting environments and what they perceive as good lighting. I was given the task by Huskvarna library to design a lighting plan for their children's department. This is part of the project "Library 2.1-room as a medium" that is going on at Huskvarna library since fall 2007. My questions at issue are: 1. What do children consider as good lighting in a library? 2. How do children experience different lighting environments? I have done an experimental study with both quantitative and qualitative elements. The study was conducted in the children's department at Huskvarna library. Twenty children in the ages between 10 and 12 participated in the study, which consisted of four surveys. The first three surveys were designed in the same way but were answered in three different lighting environments in the same room; 1) daylight only, 2) daylight in addition with reading lights, and 3) daylight and the existing lighting in the room. These first three surveys where designed primarily to answer the second question at issue, to get a deeper understanding of how children experience different lighting environments. The fourth survey was intended primarily to answer the first question and included statements about lighting, which the children had to consider. The results are: The children want to have a varied light in the room and do not like the high light levels as the existing lighting provide. They want reading armatures next to the seating and preferably colored lighting in the shape of decoration. I also discovered that most of the children preferred ?cosy? lighting. Of the lighting environments that the children have been examining in this study, the lighting environment with reading armatures is the one that the children experience as the most positive in most aspects. The light environment that the children experience as the least positive is the existing lighting in the room. The conclusion is that the light level from the existing lighting in the library's children department is considered to high by the children in the study and should be adjusted to the children's individual needs.