Artificial Skylights
Artificial Sky is the world’s most advanced human-centric lighting (HCL) manufacturer specializing in ambient, task, general, and decorative lighting. Artificial Sky Human Centric Lighting aka HCL is essentially interior daylighting that mimics the natural daylight that drives our bodily functions, including circadian rhythm.
Artificial Skylights
OUR GROUNDBREAKING ARTIFICIAL SKYLIGHT DESIGNS CAN BE FOUND IN HOMES, HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS, STADIUMS, AND OFFICES AROUND THE WORLD!
Artificial Skylights are high-tech ambient light fixtures, focused on creating an infinite blue sky with ultra-realistic depth perception that mimics Earth’s atmosphere and projects sunlight onto a nearby wall.
Artificial Skylights
OUR GROUNDBREAKING ARTIFICIAL SKYLIGHT DESIGNS CAN BE FOUND IN HOMES, HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS, STADIUMS, AND OFFICES AROUND THE WORLD!
The brain’s hypothalamus controls our circadian rhythms, but they are also directly affected by light. When it’s dark, your eyes send a signal to the hypothalamus that it’s time to feel tired. Your brain, in turn, sends a signal to your body to release the hormone melatonin, which makes you feel sleepy. That’s why your circadian rhythm tends to coincide with the cycle of daytime and nighttime (and why it’s so hard for shift workers to sleep during the day and stay awake at night).
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``WE'RE EMBRACING THE IDEA THAT A CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT CAN HELP STIMULATE INSPIRATION, HEAL THE BODY AND STRENGTHEN ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE!``
- MARK JENZEN, FOUNDER OF ARTIFICIAL SKY
Why Artificial Skylights?
For more than 150,000 years humans have predominantly lived and worked outside. The human visual system is optimized for natural light and the entrainment of the circadian rhythm of several biological functions which is controlled by natural daylight. Despite this evolutionary conditioning imprint, we have been living mostly inside buildings with limited daylight or artificial light since the industrial revolution some 150 years ago.
An average American even spends just five minutes a day under an unobstructed sky. The lack of natural daylight is known to cause winter depression (SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder) and sleep disturbances according to hundreds of case studies. Various former research has shown that light is the most important “Zeitgeber” of the body’s inner clock. A “Zeitgeber” is a rhythmically occurring natural phenomenon that acts as a cue in the regulation of the body’s circadian rhythms. Due to architectural and geographical restrictions, completely natural-lit buildings, which would be ideal, can rarely be ensured. Missing natural light makes correct artificial lighting indispensable, especially in winter and after dusk. Artificial Sky has developed and evaluated an artificial skylight to create dynamic light that increases well-being by reproducing some of the most important characteristics of natural light.
Artificial Skylights help increase serotonin levels for room occupants to help improve overall mood and mental and physical health. Serotonin plays several roles in your body, including influencing learning, memory, and happiness as well as regulating body temperature, sleep, sexual behavior, and hunger. Lack of serotonin is thought to play a role in depression, anxiety, mania, sleep-cycle disturbances, phobias, panic, and other health conditions.
Artificial Skylights enhance human performance, comfort, health, and well-being. Artificial Sky products range from acoustic sky ceiling tiles, LED skylights, virtual sky ceilings, artificial skylights, virtual windows, video walls, and more. Artificial Sky human-centric lighting is scientifically proven to reduce stress and anxiety, improve patient outcomes, lower blood pressure, redirect negative thoughts, create spaces conducive to learning, reduce eye strain, increase productivity in office environments, and even re-calibrate the human circadian system, improving our sleep/wake cycle and overall mental health and wellbeing.
