Window and view significantly influence the visual comfort in the workspace. It is important to ensure an effective working environment as the employees normally spend one third of their daily life in the working space. Lacking of windows with appropriate view in the Malaysia offices, especially the intermediate shop offices lead to the problem of windowless working environment. It is essential to have natural view through window for contributing the visual comfort. Objective of this study is to identify the important of visual comfort and the preferences of employees on surrogate window and view in windowless office. The inexistence of real view through window may require surrogate view as replacement. This study proposed surrogate window and view as an immediate solution to improve the problem. A survey has been done in five selected case studies by using the online questionnaire that is more convenient and effective. The result reveals that the most preferred surrogate window and view is the window with sea view (mean=2.938, S.D=0.244); the least preferred voted by employees is surrogate window with riverine view (mean=0.088, S.D. = 0.284). In conclusion, this study proved that the preferred surrogate window and view among employees is the view to sea, gender and age do not affect the result in this study. Sea view should be applied in a windowless office as a surrogate window and view to improve the visual comfort in the working environment.
Surrogate view is an element that helps to improve the indoor quality in a windowless office. This study proposed the preference of surrogate view among different types of office workers as an immediate solution in windowless office. Through the survey the most preferred surrogate view among indoor and outdoor workers are the window with sea view 2.95 and 2.86 in the mean. The preferences among worker who spent less than and more than 3 hours are the view to sea which took 2.89 and 2.95 in the mean. The preferences among worker who with and without usage of computer are the view to sea which took 2.96 and 2.88 in the mean
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