Low energy buildings are key to reduce global use. However, achieving low use and good daylight levels simultaneously in dense cities is challenging. This article reviews relevant studies dealing with daylighting residential urban blocks located Nordic climates. The literature review combines a systematic ‘snowball’ search approach. Findings indicate that previous research relies heavily on par...

Solar access describes the capacity of urban spaces to receive sunlight and daylight. Rapid urbanization unbridled densification pose a threat sustainable solar access, reducing penetration daylight into cities. To effectively assess at such an early design stage, planning level, it is critical that evaluation metrics are simple reliable. This paper examines cross section metrics, from more com...

Integrating daylight and energy performance with optimization into the design process has always been a challenge for designers. Most of the building environmental performance simulation tools require a considerable amount of time and iterations for achieving accurate results. Moreover the combination of daylight and energy performances has always been an issue, as different software packages a...

The selection of a fenestration system for a building is critical, as it impacts energy performance, occupant comfort, and ambiance of a space. Complex Fenestration Systems (CFS) address these criteria using a wide variety of novel technologies but are difficult to define or be characterized. Existing metrics for fenestration systems are unable to reveal the dynamics or degree of variety over c...

The objective of this paper is to highlight the effectiveness of light shelves in tropical office buildings to enhance interior daylighting quality. Daylight simulation was performed for custom light shelves for a typical office floor of Dhaka City in Bangladesh, to determine the best possible location under overcast sky conditions. Six alternative models of a 3m high study space were created w...

Daylight access in healthcare facilities is essential for creating comfortable ambiance conditions the patients during their accommodation a hospital. The aim of this paper to investigate how window size, location (Paralimni Cyprus and Brussels Belgium), room orientation patients’ gaze direction have an impact on visual non-visual effects. This research focuses hospitals’ most typical patient r...

Background: The use of daylight in offices has become an effective strategy to improve the quality of indoor space and energy efficiency. There is enough potential to have daylight autonomy in Kerman as a city with more than 300 sunny days a year. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between facades configuration and the amount of daylight in office buildings of Kerman. ...

There are many kinds of façade shading designs which provide optimal indoor daylighting conditions. Thus, considering combinations of different types of façade shading systems is an essential aspect in the optimization of daylighting in the building design process. This study explores (1) how the pattern and different characteristics are evaluated by varying façade shading types and considering...

to effectively design daylight in buildings, daylight availability data are necessary. although there is a great potential for daylight energy in iran, its use has been hampered by the absence of measured data. in this paper the illuminance data on the vertical south facing surfaces of tehran were estimated using the iesna model. for this propose an illuminance measuring set was used in order t...

Many recent studies in the field of kinetic façade developed grid-based modular forms through primary movements which are restricted simple shapes. However, learning from biological analogies reveals that plants and trees provide adjustable daylighting strategies by means multilayered curvature morphological changes. This research builds on a relevant literature study, observation, biomimicry a...