Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Daylight analysis

Daylight is an important issue in our project, daylight is an important parameter for the quality of a space. The ribbon of houses around the stadium only have on facade which is exposed to daylight, therefore the depth of the houses is limited. The void behind the houses and below the stands is more problematic in terms of daylight but also has a high potential. This is the space we want to analyse with DIALux and Radiance. 

Daylight can enter the void in three ways: - by the openings in the houses - through the opening at the top between the houses and the third ring - through the slits in the stands.
The use of certain reflective materials, the number and the size of openings will directly effect the amount of daylight in the void. With this analysis we want to  know what the relations are between the geometry and the amount of daylight in the void. 

preliminary result from DIALux:
isolines in candela of the floorplan
isolines in lux of the floorplan

some examples:
  • Sunlight: 100 000 - 130 000 lux
  • Daylight/indirect sunlight: 10 000 - 20 000 lux
  • Cloudy day: 1000 lux 
  • Office: 500 lux
  • Full moon: 0,1 lux



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