Daylighting: Natural Light in Architecture

produced for the DETR by Professor Peter Tregenza in their Best Practice Programme on energy efficiency. This goes through a num ...

considers both the daylighting and the artificial lighting of a modern office building, to indicate both methods of computer cal ...

48 Daylighting: Natural Light in Architecture Sections of the three roof options for the street Buro Happold ...

carried out to establish the daylight effects on a number of building forms and roof configurations. CIBSE Guidelines recommend ...

Conclusions The results are very encouraging, and meet the requirements of the CIBSE Guidelines. As expected the results for the ...

Typical Office Wing results from the model, below the artifical sky: Office Wing, lower level A minimum daylight factor of 2.3 p ...

52 Daylighting: Natural Light in Architecture Natural lighting contours as measured by computer in the North Street and Lower of ...

The Office Wing The minimum daylight factor was calculated to be 1.78 per cent. This falls below the recommended levels, but onl ...

Luminaire choice Lamp – Fluorescent Reduced energy use, less than the conventional T8 lamp Reduced glare with the use of three-d ...

Indirect/direct louvre with 25 per cent indirect and 75 per cent direct, this configuration produces high performance with high ...

photography area, and ancillary accommodation including WCs and offices. The building layout is arranged around a central rectan ...

The specific aims and objectives of the study included the following: Is the level of daylight to the open plan studios adequat ...

comparative measurements, an assessment could be made of increasing the proportion of glazing within this wall. (Note. Despite t ...

CONCLUSIONS The open-plan studios located at the top of the building were well daylit having average daylight factors of over 5 ...

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6CaseStudies INTRODUCTION InLighting Modern Buildings^1 the Case Studies were divided into eleven categories from Residential to ...

following examples it will be seen that the nature of the window design becomes crucial, with high tech designs being developed ...

Residential The daylighting of residences is perhaps the least difficult problem for architects, but it becomes more of a proble ...