Human have different characters and habits, which some of them can easily express their feeling and emotion, but some cannot. Living in a rapidly growing world, many factors can make people depressed about their life. This kind of feeling can affect their working and learning ability. One method that can help people to freely express their feeling is through dance. Through dancing, an individual’s mood can be changed to relax, focus, and decrease anxiety and depression.
A dance studio which texture and lighting of the interior space is reduced to a minimum to enhance user’s experience. Replacing mirror function in a common dance studio with shadows cast from dancer’s body gesture on the wall is also applied in this concept. In a common dance studio, the use of mirror is very important, because dancers and teachers need mirrors to communicate and evaluate their dancing positions and body movements. However, there is also a negative impact for using mirrors. It becomes an addictive behavior to see their reflection on the mirror. When they do this kind of behavior, they cannot dance with their soul to express their feeling anymore but only strive to perfect their movements. Using shadow and light in dance studios to create spiritual balance generates a new design concept for dance studios to relieve stress.
A dance studio that is for practicing performances needs mirrors inside, but a dance studio to relieve stress does not need mirrors inside, and it is proven from the questionnaire result. There were 50 respondents who are students from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology that were asked to dance in two different conditons. First, they dance in the normal studio setting that uses mirrors and bright ilumination. Afterwards, they danced in a room with high contrast between shadow and light without mirrors inside and only casted shadows from their body gestures on the wall in front of them. After doing that simulation, participants are also asked to fill in the questionnaire to evaluate the experience of dancing between those two different condition, and 72% of respondents said that emotion can be released when they dance without mirror and 58% of respondents chose to dance with a contrast between shadow and light.
Revit daylight simulation is applied in this research to prove that shadows can be casted on the wall according to design concept to calculate how long daylight can illuminate the required area and how long artificial light is needed when daylight is not available.

Human have different characters and habits, which some of them can easily express their feeling and emotion, but some cannot. Living in a rapidly growing world, many factors can make people depressed about their life. This kind of feeling can affect their working and learning ability. One method that can help people to freely express their feeling is through dance. Through dancing, an individual’s mood can be changed to relax, focus, and decrease anxiety and depression.
A dance studio which texture and lighting of the interior space is reduced to a minimum to enhance user’s experience. Replacing mirror function in a common dance studio with shadows cast from dancer’s body gesture on the wall is also applied in this concept. In a common dance studio, the use of mirror is very important, because dancers and teachers need mirrors to communicate and evaluate their dancing positions and body movements. However, there is also a negative impact for using mirrors. It becomes an addictive behavior to see their reflection on the mirror. When they do this kind of behavior, they cannot dance with their soul to express their feeling anymore but only strive to perfect their movements. Using shadow and light in dance studios to create spiritual balance generates a new design concept for dance studios to relieve stress.
A dance studio that is for practicing performances needs mirrors inside, but a dance studio to relieve stress does not need mirrors inside, and it is proven from the questionnaire result. There were 50 respondents who are students from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology that were asked to dance in two different conditons. First, they dance in the normal studio setting that uses mirrors and bright ilumination. Afterwards, they danced in a room with high contrast between shadow and light without mirrors inside and only casted shadows from their body gestures on the wall in front of them. After doing that simulation, participants are also asked to fill in the questionnaire to evaluate the experience of dancing between those two different condition, and 72% of respondents said that emotion can be released when they dance without mirror and 58% of respondents chose to dance with a contrast between shadow and light.
Revit daylight simulation is applied in this research to prove that shadows can be casted on the wall according to design concept to calculate how long daylight can illuminate the required area and how long artificial light is needed when daylight is not available.

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