The effective use of daylight is a critical design input that increases spatial qualities, sustainability, and energy efficiency targets in buildings. emerging kinetic architecture concept supports these goals. It also recommends the building elements are suitable for dynamically environment-responsive façades. This study aims to explore potential envelopes optimal efficient methodology based o...

The research presented in this paper reports an analysis of daylight in three offices with different exposures and characteristics located in Naples (Italy). The goal was to fully investigate daylight characteristics, also considering the circadian impact of daylight entering these offices, with the hope to develop guidelines to better assess daylight quality in built environments. One of the m...

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by having daylighting in mind through a building design process rather than end of it, achieving a more sustainable space is much easier and feasible. since many people spend an important amount of their lives at their working spaces, accessing enough natural light together with satisfying view are essential for their physiological and psychological health. moreover as a daylighted space has a ...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that year-round daylight saving would reduce road traffic injuries. METHODS and results Using 15 years of police data from north-east England, we estimate that 6.9 (95 per cent CI 1.5-12.6) fewer serious or fatal road traffic injuries to child pedestrians would have occurred in this area over this period had year-round daylight saving operated (equivalent to 0...