The use of natural light and color in meditation spaces: an application in a pavilion in China

Abstract

This paper is an exploration of meditation and architectural design methodology, based on the author's critique of the crisis of materialism and pragmatism in contemporary Chinese architecture. Starting from the theories of art, aesthetics, psychology, philosophy and other related "architecture and spatial context" and combining with data analysis, this paper designs a meditative space to guide people's thinking and summarizes a theory of architectural design.

First of all, the author argues the current state of the material crisis in contemporary Chinese architecture and draws out the problem to start thinking about solutions. Then by vertically comparing ancient China and showing case studies, it is argued that light plays an important role in the creation of spatial moods. Preliminary design are proposed through field research combined with the influence of light on people, architectural space and context in the previous paper. Then the author argues that color diversity plays an important role in the creation of spatial mood by comparing European countries (Spain) with case studies, and then the author makes a questionnaire survey and analyzes data in order to find the effect of different colors on human emotions. Finally, through the field research on the color of light inside the space, combined with the influence of light and color on people, architectural space and mood in the previous article, the author proposes the final design.