This paper investigates novel computational methods for Regenerative Design by developing further on the European Daylight Standard EN 17037, to make it useful at both urban and architectural scales. Case studies are evaluated sunlight, daylight quality views. A method, compliant with is introduced evaluation of sunlight. An assessment metrics, an office building in Helsinki, a 300 lux target, ...

The quality of diverse compound selection mainly depends on cluster algorithms, descriptors, the combinations of the descriptors, and similarity metrics. The Jarvis-Patrick algorithm, MDL search keys, and Daylight fingerprints are a well accepted algorithm and structure descriptors for compound library diversity analysis. Based upon our 288 experiments on selecting compounds from various descri...

Humans perceive daylit architecture as a rich and dynamic luminous composition and yet existing performance metrics most often evaluate natural light for its ability to provide adequate illumination to a two-dimensional task surface while avoiding glarebased visual discomfort. This rather limited taskdriven approach places a disproportionate emphasis on surface illumination and glare-based disc...

Daylighting is desirable in classrooms but can pose a challenge to classroom illumination when there risk of discomfort from glare windows and sunlight. There are several metrics use for the evaluation daylight, none has yet been validated based on field-of-view conditions classrooms. A previous study found that Daylight Glare Probability (DGP) produced relatively better predictive power report...

To evaluate the performance of buildings in use and to predict performance during design, it is necessary to identify what the appropriate measures of performance should be, when and how measures should be collected, and how results will be interpreted to determine success or failure. As noted in Chap. 1, one of the central barriers to effective daylighting is that daylighting performance is of...

Results from the DAYKE-Italy project are presented. An investigation on daylighting in eight classrooms five Italian universities was carried out through a combined approach: an ad-hoc survey administered to students investigate how they perceive daylight classroom, and numerical simulations (DIVA + ALFA) calculate set of objective metrics (daylight, circadian, energy-related). A sample 542 que...

Proper design and appropriate configuration of daylight systems, as the primary means controlling distributing daylight, greatly improve visual comfort reduce energy consumption. Daylight systems are widely used around world, light distribution in interior spaces; residential buildings, vertical windows most common ones. Iranian architecture has been using a traditional system for over centurie...

We have examined the long time series of observations of E-region virtual height (1948–2006) and critical frequency (1935-2006) hitherto made by the Tromsø ionosonde at 70 N, 19 E. Combining a simplistic trend analysis with a rigorous treatment of errors we identify a negative trend in critical frequency. While a similar analysis of the virtual height hE also suggests a negative trend, a closer...