Light Phenomenon in Religious Building Interior and Its Influence to People Perception

Abstract

We have known that each human has unique character, both physically and psychologically. This unique character caused behavior of one people differs from the others. People behavior is directly and indirectly influenced by psychological factor that cause his perception differ from the others.  Some supplementary factors also influenced people psychological factor such as education and cultural background, gender, habit, and many other factors (each factor has different percentage of influence). However, although people percept differently, they would have the same tendencies under similar supplementary factor (such as of education and cultural background similarities). These perception and supplementary factors would affect their personal perception and behavior, so they began to response differently to space and lighting.  Lighting in interior design is one of the most remarkably factor people see. If there was no light (natural or artificial lighting) available in an architectural space, people could not percept anything. However, when light existed in an architectural space, people began to percept space around them under their psychological factor. Therefore, human perception could be different in each person depend on their background. Some substances such as light strength, light intensity and color yielded by the light also created  different perception of  the people. &nbsp