Visually-shaped comfort of perceiving the architectural environment in conditions of artificial lighting (using the example of Chelyabinsk)

The study, conducted at the facilities of Chelyabinsk, aims to identify the essence of the comfort visually-shaped perception of the artificial architectural and light environment. This is achieved by an integrated approach, which involves the analysis of scientific and information resources, including regulatory and legal documents, field observations and surveys, graphical analysis of architectural and light environmental fragments under artificial lighting. An analysis of the regulatory framework on the lighting of architectural objects and urban space demonstrated the technical regulations of this sphere clearly articulating the visual comfort concept and its parameters only in relation to the interior space and the road transport system. The study clarified the concept and conditions of creating a shaping aspect in the visual perception of the urban artificial architectural and light environment. Mostly in terms of comfort for this process, the Chelyabinsk areas of the architectural and light environment in artificial lighting conditions were studied. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that the process of forming an artificial architectural and light environment of the city should be based on a visuallyshaped comfort, proceeding in a certain sequence and associated with the emergence of new factors of innovative urban environmental development. The relationship between the visually-shaped comfort of perceiving the artificial architectural and light environment, as well as the basics of the functional safety of subjects at the nodal points of the city were established. According to the experience of a typical domestic metropolis of Chelyabinsk, theoretical and research materials, presented in the article, can serve as the basis for the further interdisciplinary development of a visually comfortable and safe artificial architectural and light environment of cities.

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