During the pandemic, millions of knowledge workers discovered something about their domestic environments that they had never consciously articulated: natural light matters enormously. Home offices positioned beside windows, however imperfectly, provided something that most corporate buildings had systematically denied: the ability to see and feel the progression of the day.
Circadian rhythms — the internal 24-hour cycles that regulate sleep, alertness, hormone production, and metabolism — are primarily entrained by light. Specifically by the intensity and spectral composition of the light entering the eye, and by the way this shifts over the course of a day. The Seasonal Affective Disorder research tradition has long documented the pathological effects of light deprivation; what is newer is the understanding that subclinical light poverty — not enough to trigger diagnosable depression, but enough to impair mood, energy, and cognitive performance — is endemic in conventional office environments.
Anar Guliyev
Head of Design
Anar leads TurkeshDekor's design practice with fifteen years of experience across commercial and residential interiors. He trained at the Milan Polytechnic and returned to Baku to build a studio rooted in Azerbaijani materiality.
