The folk houses in this area all use bluestone as the building material, constructing cave-style folk houses and gable-roofed folk houses. The indoor lighting of the folk houses depends on the doors and windows on the front facade of the buildings. By comparing the advantages of the lighting effects of the two types of indoor folk houses, the results show that the lighting effect of the cave-style folk houses is slightly better than that of the gable-roofed folk houses, but the difference is not obvious enough. And it is far below the lighting requirements stipulated in relevant regulations. Meanwhile, an optimized comparative study on the indoor lighting of the buildings was carried out, including optimizing the cleanliness of the windows by renovating them, renovating the styles of the doors, and increasing the number of windows. The results show that increasing the number of windows can greatly improve the indoor light environment of the folk houses, and renovating the styles of the doors and windows can also improve the indoor light environment to some extent.

Yan Mao, Mengmeng Lin, Lu Wang, Xiaofang Bi. Simulation Analysis and Optimization of the Light Environment for Two Types of Stone-built Folk Houses in Taihang Mountains—Taking Changping Township as an Example. Academic Journal of Architecture and Geotechnical Engineering (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 1: 114-121. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJAGE.2025.070115.

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