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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Daylighting"”.
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Daylighting applications of micro-textured optical surfaces
Daylighting is the use of natural light to replace artificial light. In traditional rooms sunlight will only illuminate the area closest to the window due to the high solar angle. The rear of the room appears gloomy and occupants will use electric lighting even though there is sufficient daylight …
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Validated interactive daylighting analysis for architectural design
… glare-free alternative to electric lighting, daylighting simulation and visual discomfort predictions must be available in real time during design. This thesis describes three innovations towards this goal: development of a parallel ray-tracing engine, validation against high dynamic range …
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Automated support for experimental approaches in daylighting performances assessment
The study of daylight and solar reflection has been a topic of increasing interest over the past two decades. A novel mechanical support has been constructed to help better understand this topic that consists of a five foot in diameter circular table driven to rotate and tilt by computer controlled …
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Improving the daylighting conditions of existing buildings : the benefits and limitations of integrating anidolic daylighting systems using the American classroom as a model
Awareness of the benefits of good daylighting has risen in recent years, and the designs of many new buildings take daylighting into consideration. However, the majority of our built environment is older than this recent trend, and was not designed with daylighting as a top priority. A need exists, …
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Natural daylighting and energy conservation : innovative solutions for office buildings
Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1982.
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The daylit array : strategies for daylighting the deep-plan office
… and open planning are defined. Chapter 2- Daylighting - deals with issues relating to the incorporation of daylighting into buildings. Here, the advantages of daylighting- both in quantitative measurements as well as qualitative aspects - are put forward; and the implications on interior …
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THERMAL-LITE : a microcomputer program for thermal and daylighting analysis
Among the variety of building elements that form the boundary between artificially and naturally controlled space, aperture is responsible for a significant amount of the building's energy consumption, and has one of the most complex interactive behaviours that energy conscious design has to …
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Lighting the Box,Daylighting As The Primary Organizer In Multifamily Housing
This project started out as program for multi-family housing with a need for natural light, then, it changed. Through countless studies, it became evident that what started as an animal made up of bones and tissues was really just the vessel for the animal's soul. Light is the soul of design. The …
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An interactive performance-based expert system for daylighting in architectural design
… may improve performance. For designing with daylighting, it is essential that the designer consider performance during the early design stage, as this is the stage when the most critical design decisions are made, such as the overall building geometry and faqade elements. This thesis proposes …
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Time-varied daylighting performance to enable a goal-driven design process
… and easily understood by the designer. In daylighting analysis, research has been moving towards dynamic daylighting metrics, which include both annual performance indicators and local climate conditions. Temporally-based graphics are one method of annual data display which shows great …
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Development of a procedure for predicting daylighting in square type atrium
The popularity of the atria after its revival since the 1970's has caught the attention of designers and opened ways for new strategies of energy conservation for large buildings. Early atria were visual statements rather than integrated energy systems. But a growing recognition of the contribution …
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Integration of daylighting and building design for human health and well-being
… and health problems. Also, there is a lack of daylighting metrics that address human health and wellbeing in building design. This lack of daylighting design metrics leaves architects and building designers without any means to directly address building occupants’ health issues, particularly …
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The Soralux Daylighting System : passive solar illumination for deep-plan building spaces
… availability of daylight. A number of advanced daylighting systems have been developed that attempt to address these challenges with varying priorities and success. This thesis proposes a new technology named the Soralux Daylighting System. The system is passive, requires no shading adjustments, …
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Relationships between owner/user satisfaction and the incorporation of daylighting into the retail building
… retail design projects utilizing natural daylighting. Followed by the investigation and laboratory testing of three alternate roof fenestration patterns applicable to the least effective design. A description of the investigation procedure, a tabulation of all research findings and a …
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Smart Prismatic Louver Technology for Enhanced Daylighting and Management of Thermal Loads in Green Buildings
… redirection and solar energy harvesting. Good daylighting implementation enhances the amount of useful natural light within a space, thereby offsetting the need for electric lighting. Solar energy harvesting systems can mitigate energy costs from mechanical systems by managing incoming thermal …
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Energy efficient commercial buildings : a study of natural daylighting in the context of adaptive reuse
Daylighting is a powerful design element which can have a dramatic impact on people's perception of space, physical and psychological well-being as well as a building's annual and daily energy requirements. Understanding of the way daylight can penetrate a space , dramatize materials, create …
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Economic and design analysis of daylighting a commercial tower in a hot and humid climate
… tower in Tampa, Florida was redesigned for daylighting. The methods are outlined and results illustrated, A cooling load comparison is done to determine the economic feasibility of such a strategy. It was found that the smaller cooling plant and greater perimeter office space could offset …
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Space, light, and time : prospective analysis of Circadian illumination for health-based daylighting with applications to healthcare architecture
… understanding about the health effects of daylighting in architecture. Little in the way of rigorous analysis exists in the emerging field of "evidence-based" design; however billions of dollars are committed to healthcare construction in the United States annually. The next generation of …
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A new approach in data visualization to integrate time and space variability of daylighting in the design process
Daylighting design has great impact on the performance and aesthetical quality of a work of architecture but requires many issues to be addressed during the design process. The way existing daylighting tools deliver data to designers is still inefficient. The output display has no quick switch …
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A mathematical model of building daylighting based on first principles of astrometry, solid geometry and optical radiation transfer
… consideration. This has generated an interest in daylighting; the bringing of direct and diffuse daylight into buildings to reduce the use of artificial lighting. Many methods exist for quantifying diffuse daylight distribution for use in the design of buildings, but the methods vary widely both …
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