Light and color therapy: the role of light and color in architecture from the perspective of traditional Persian medicine

摘要

Some of the most important elements of healing architecture are light and color,which have been considered in diverse studies of environmental design for treatment and an effect on health.However,there is a lack of research in the field of the proportion of light and color with human differences.The goal of the present research is to provide a new perspective regarding the correlation between humans and the environment based on the philosophy of natural sciences in Iranian traditional medicine,with a focus on color and light to contrive an all-out balance of humans.The present article establishes a connection between traditional and modern medicine;it also indicates medical and health activists to draw their attention to the need for basic researches in traditional Iranian medicine to improve it based on scientific evidence as well as change the attitude of architects to design places based on people’s temperament(in traditional Persian medicine,temperament implies the same and new quality that results from the combination of the four elements(fire,air,water,and earth are four essential constituents of human and non-human beings)with each other and with their interaction in a composite body).This article is a descriptive method in a qualitative study that discuss elements of light and color from the perspective of traditional Persian medicine,after reviewing the history of color and light therapy.From the perspective of modern research,the study additionally discusses the effect of light and color on humans,the relationship of light and color with the temperament of people,and the effect of environmental color and light on people’s temperament.Notably,humans differ with regard to their characteristics and thus have different temperaments,which causes them to have different tendencies toward environmental factors.Qualitative data indicate the difference in the propensity of individuals to color and light according to a physical and psychological condition,and the effect of color and light on human temperament.Thus,the recommendations of traditional medicine can help present a proper pattern of design.