daylight in classrooms is a critical factor in school design, in terms of its impact on students’ health, learning and visual performance. providing adequate amount of evenly distributed daylight and glare prevention are important challenges in classroom design. window configuration significantly affects the intensity and uniformity of daylight. this paper aims to investigate the effect of wind...

A new daylight simulation method for radiosity environments is presented. Daylight illumination is transported in a first step where sun and sky are represented as a set of directional sources. Light is transported using parallel projections of these sources. The scene mesh is adaptively subdivided using energy and visibility criteria obtained from a extended scan-line algorithm that computes a...

Original scientific paper The model proposed in this paper is based on a multi-criteria analysis of annual daylight illumination relying on the interoperability of commercially available software tools. The daylight performance of different urban morphologies is investigated by simulating and measuring real weather conditions for a specified location on two types of 3D models. The first analysi...

Most designers would agree that natural light is essential to the experience of any great work of architecture, but as a professional discipline, we lack consensus on which characteristics of daylight quantify or qualify the visual performance of a space. Perceptual qualities such as brightness, contrast, and temporal variability influence our experience of physical space and while illumination...

This paper describes a proof-of-concept implementation that uses a high dynamic range CMOS video camera to integrate daylight harvesting and occupancy sensing functionalities. It has been demonstrated that the proposed concept not only circumvents several drawbacks of conventional lighting control sensors, but also offers functionalities that are not currently achievable by these sensors. The p...