This paper examines the role that light and dark play in how residents of Claremont Court, a modernist housing scheme in Edinburgh, Scotland, form a sense of atmosphere of place. Our findings show that the design of Claremont Court affords particular experiences of light and dark and of related warmth and cold that are meaningful to how residents experience and feel about the Court. While atmospheres tend to be conceptualised as spatially and temporally singular, our analytical focus on light and dark allows us to conceptualise the atmosphere of Claremont Court as made up of simultaneously held but distinct micro-atmospheres, which interact, overlap and even contradict each other. Furthermore, speaking to residents about their home environment revealed the role that memory plays in how people perceive atmosphere. Drawing from Mason’s concept of socio-atmospherics, we theorise atmospheres not as spatially contained, but as trajectories through space, where the experience of atmosphere is one of intertwining (and at times contradictory) atmospheres past and present.

本文探讨了光明和黑暗在苏格兰爱丁堡现代主义住房计划克莱蒙特法院的居民如何形成场所氛围中所起的作用。我们的发现表明，克莱尔蒙特法院的设计提供了特别的明暗体验以及相关的温暖和寒冷，这对于居民如何体验和感受法院具有重要意义。尽管大气倾向于在空间和时间上被概念化，但我们对明暗的分析使我们可以将克莱蒙特球场的气氛概念化，该气氛由同时保持但彼此不同的微大气组成，它们相互影响，重叠甚至相互矛盾。此外，向居民讲解他们的家庭环境揭示了记忆在人们如何感知气氛中所起的作用。