RU2610404C2 - Method of simulating openable window in confined space - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: construction.

SUBSTANCE: method for simulating an openable window in the confined space comprises using familiar parts of the natural openable window, wherein the opening window with the framing and the metal sill with stationary parts of the locking fittings is placed in the dead niche of the main wall, decorated as the window aperture by gluing photo wallpaper with the image of an open window to the widest part of the niche and painting narrow fixed parts of the dead niche with the white paint for giving them the image of the window aperture slopes, and movable sashes with existing fittings and unlocking rotary handles frame the video panels demonstrating the dynamic pictures of the external open space, broadcasted by an external computer electrically connected with the panels by a hidden cable channel.

EFFECT: organization of open space perception in the confined space and weakening the influence of the unhealthy premises syndrome, up to the possibility of converting the confined space into the living room.

Description

The present invention relates to the field of construction, in particular ground construction, and to meet the needs of a person in a room when using enclosed spaces.

In addition to the above-ground space, the modern construction industry is widely developing the underground space to create jobs for the personnel serving the building in use or the personnel whose management rents the underground space. In addition, due to the sharp increase in land prices in the city, industrial enterprises began to be exported outside the city, and the remaining industrial buildings, which were important as ancient monuments of industrial architecture, were converted into offices, shopping centers, hotels and even residential buildings. Naturally, in the underground construction and conversion of old buildings of industrial enterprises with huge workshops, closed rooms are formed with only one or several doors in solid walls, a continuous ceiling and a solid floor. Lamps and ventilation duct exits are installed on the ceiling, tables, armchairs and cabinets are on the floor.

The trouble is that a large number of people suffer to one degree or another from claustrophobia - a psychopathological syndrome, a phobia of enclosed or cramped spaces, which is considered one of the most common pathological fears. A phobia is a strongly expressed persistent obsessive fear, irreversibly aggravated in certain situations and not amenable to a complete logical explanation. It should be noted that the living room also has closed spaces - this is a bathroom and toilet, sometimes a kitchen. As a result of the development of a phobia, a person begins to be afraid and accordingly avoid certain objects, types of activities or situations. This is the worst case scenario. In the best case, a strong-willed person in a confined space begins to feel a certain degree of discomfort, which is a consequence of an unhealthy room syndrome, leads to the development of secondary mental illness and a decrease in labor productivity. Living in such a room is not recommended by psychologists.

Therefore, measures are being taken to artificially open the enclosed space - architectural: using rectangular and rounded columns and half columns, and design: placing paintings, photographs, photo wallpapers and plasma panels on smooth walls.

There are known associations of plasma panels in video walls for outputting large amounts of information produced by Vidavision, described on the Internet http://vidavision.ru/videowall.html . A video wall is such a system of professional screens that are interconnected into a single screen that allows you to play video and graphics from different sources. The video wall can be of any size, thanks to the modular construction principle. As an element of the wall, LCD and LED panels are used. A feature of professional panels for video walls is the absence of a frame (frame). When assembling such panels in a video wall, the distance between the panels is no more than 5 millimeters, and this fully satisfies the requirement for picture integrity. LCD panels are not inferior in quality to plasma panels and benefit in energy consumption. More recently, thin-panel LCD panels have appeared on the market. The total distance between the panels is 6 millimeters.

A video wall can receive an image from a variety of sources: computers, video cameras, surveillance systems, and the like. With the help of a video controller, various actions are carried out to control video panels. It is possible to display one image from a single source on a video screen, or a set of pictures from different sources. Controllers are designed and manufactured for specific video walls, with a certain number of information sources and video modules. Such controllers perceive the multi-screen as a whole and have the ability to display an arbitrary set of images in arbitrary zones of the video wall.

Video panels are combined into a single whole by using a framing decorative panel that is fixedly attached to the main wall.

But psychologists do not recommend installing video walls in confined spaces, since large smooth surfaces enhance the perception of closure, and the extended vertical and horizontal lines formed by the boundaries of the plasma panels create the effect of a person’s “packing” in an enclosed space. In a confined space for this purpose, psychologists recommend the use of desktop video racks.

A natural room is perceived by a person as an open space in the presence of natural windows, equipped with sashes and equipped with accessories for unlocking the window. Known custom wallpaper on the Internet https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/ . Wall mural the size of the window opening with the closed or open sashes depicted on them, behind which there is a window-shaped image. But such murals create a three-dimensional impression of a window only when observed from a point perpendicular to their central vertical. With a horizontal shift of the observation point due to the invariable size of the elements of the photo wallpaper, a person pays attention to the flatness of the image and loses the impression of being open.

In addition to creating an open effect, window simulators are also used to manipulate the illumination of a confined space.

To illuminate the premises, they use both means of creating natural lighting, such as windows, and means of creating artificial lighting, such as chandeliers, lamps, etc. One of the advantages of natural light is that they are automatically tuned to biological, natural time, creating a maximum of lighting in the daytime and a minimum of night. In rooms where there are no windows, window simulators can be used, which are made in the form of windows and give light that is approximately equivalent to natural, creating the illusion of the presence of a window in the room.

So, a window simulator is known, including a light panel in a frame and a windowsill, described on the Internet http://www.businesshome.ru/archives/483 .

In it, the light panel is made in the form of a fluorescent lamp, creating scattered light on a rectangular blind, which simulates a window.

The disadvantage of this device is the low functionality associated with the lack of automatic adjustment of the glow for biologically active time, as well as the low reliability of the simulation window. Any user immediately understands that in front of him is a simple lamp, only in shape similar to a window.

A window simulator is also known, including a window frame, a light panel in a window frame, and a window sill described on the Internet at http://www.stro y servis.ru/inf/rs/okna/falshokna .

In it, the light panel is made in the form of a lamp, for example a fluorescent lamp, and a matte film or glass on which the light from the fluorescent lamp is scattered, giving the impression of natural light from the street. In addition, the film may comprise a window view image applied thereon.

The disadvantage of this device is the low functionality associated with the lack of automatic adjustment of the glow for biologically active time, as well as the low reliability of the simulation window. Any user immediately understands that in front of him is a simple lamp, only in form similar to a window, since the image is either absent or completely static.

A patent for utility model No. 132255 U1 (IPC F21V33 /) is known. A window simulator, the simulation method of which is closest to our proposed method and adopted by us for its prototype. This utility model mainly aims to propose a window simulator that makes it possible to smooth out at least one of the above disadvantages, namely to expand the functionality of the device.

To achieve this goal, the light panel is made in the form of at least one flat display equipped with an electronic unit and a control unit. Thanks to this advantageous characteristic, it is possible to create not only a static image on the display that corresponds to the standard view from the window, which allows you to create a dynamic image, which, in turn, allows you to automatically adjust the brightness of the room in accordance with biological time. When playing back a video clip corresponding to the view from the window for 24 hours, the lighting in the room will correspond to the lighting from the real window.

We propose to use artificial video windows in confined spaces to achieve the goals of increasing the reliability of imitations.

The aim of our invention is to organize the perception of open space in a closed room, weakening the influence of the unhealthy room syndrome, up to the possibility of turning the closed room into a living room.

This goal is achieved by the fact that a blind vertical niche with dimensions equal to the window opening is formed in the capital wall of the enclosed space, photowall-paper with a window-shaped image of the landscape type is glued to the wide side of the blind niche, the remaining sides of the blind niche are painted with white paint to create the impression of slopes of the opening of a natural open window .

In a blind niche, a metal window sill and a frame of a natural window frame with a part of locking elements and fixed hinge elements are mounted on which metal window sashes with a rotating part of locking devices and a rotary unlocking handle are opened for opening metal doors framing plasma or liquid crystal video panels with controllers electrically connected through an internal cable channel with an external computer located on one of the tables in a closed room. The computer can generate for the used video panels in the closed casement windows a moving image of a swaying sea or a flowering branch swaying from wind gusts, as well as other moving images, giving the impression of an open space. If it is necessary to replace the video panel or the controller, the shutter of the video window can be opened, which allows for quick replacement.

The essence of the proposal lies in the fact that an openable window is installed in the blind niche of the capital wall, the sashes of which with working fittings frame a video panel to which a window-shaped image is broadcast. The novelty of the proposal lies in the fact that in the blind niche of the capital wall, decorated under the window opening, a natural opening window is installed, the movable sashes of which with active fittings frame video panels on which dynamic pictures of the external space are shown.

Thus, the proposed method of simulating an openable window compares favorably with existing methods in that it creates a variable perspective using the usual elements of a natural openable window in combination with a dynamic and static image of the window landscape, which enhance the opening effect of the window simulation, significantly weakening the unhealthy room syndrome, arising in confined spaces. This increases the comfort and psychological safety of a person in a confined space, which leads to an increase in his tone and labor productivity, increasing the possibility of living in a confined space.

Claims (1)

A method of simulating an openable window in a confined space, which consists in using the usual details of a natural openable window, characterized in that the openable window with a framing frame and a metal window sill with the fixed parts of the locking fittings is placed in a blind niche of the main wall, designed under the window opening by gluing to the wide part niches for wall murals with the image of an open window and coloring of narrow stationary parts of a deaf niche with white paint to give them the form of slopes of the window opening, and movable sashes with active fittings and unlocking rotary handles frame the video panels, which demonstrate dynamic pictures of the external open space, broadcast by an external computer, electrically connected to the panels via a hidden cable channel.