Daylighting in Buildings: Sustainable Design Strategies for Building Floorplates
Disciplines
Environmental Design | Interior Architecture
Abstract (300 words maximum)
Abstract
Daylighting in Buildings: Investigating the Relationship between Daylight Levels and Building Compactness in Apartment Housing Types.
Sustainable design and maintenance of buildings is a key issue facing our generation and generations to come since building material production, construction, operation, and maintenance — are responsible for more than 55% of global energy use. Our goal within this project is to discover building typologies that will lead us to achieve a more sustainable balance between the built and natural environments by employing the use of daylighting. Strategic design considering window arrangement, shading applications, and interior dimensioning is key in ensuring a building is properly lit while remaining cost-efficient. The problem with daylighting in most buildings is that the many building types are based on floorplates that are far too wide which hinders widescale daylighting. Meanwhile, the more we design buildings that are less compact and elongated the more we increase the overall construction cost due to the larger share of the envelope and the heat gain/loss through the envelope. The goal of the project is to find an optimal balance between nature and the built environment to exist in accordance with one another. Sufficient data collection relating to the benefits of certain typologies over others has been collected using AutoCAD files that have been scaled and measured and then put into graphical form in order to better display our findings. Comparative studies were conducted between the findings of my own along with my peers. The results proved telling first on the structure occupying our own campus, and subsequently sourced from Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century: ‘Plans, Sections and Elevations’ by author Hilary French. The proposed shape classification has consequently contributed an array of typological solutions, detailed shape analysis, and comparative studies.
Academic department under which the project should be listed
CACM - Architecture
Primary Investigator (PI) Name
Ermal Shpuza
Daylighting in Buildings: Sustainable Design Strategies for Building Floorplates
Abstract
Daylighting in Buildings: Investigating the Relationship between Daylight Levels and Building Compactness in Apartment Housing Types.
Sustainable design and maintenance of buildings is a key issue facing our generation and generations to come since building material production, construction, operation, and maintenance — are responsible for more than 55% of global energy use. Our goal within this project is to discover building typologies that will lead us to achieve a more sustainable balance between the built and natural environments by employing the use of daylighting. Strategic design considering window arrangement, shading applications, and interior dimensioning is key in ensuring a building is properly lit while remaining cost-efficient. The problem with daylighting in most buildings is that the many building types are based on floorplates that are far too wide which hinders widescale daylighting. Meanwhile, the more we design buildings that are less compact and elongated the more we increase the overall construction cost due to the larger share of the envelope and the heat gain/loss through the envelope. The goal of the project is to find an optimal balance between nature and the built environment to exist in accordance with one another. Sufficient data collection relating to the benefits of certain typologies over others has been collected using AutoCAD files that have been scaled and measured and then put into graphical form in order to better display our findings. Comparative studies were conducted between the findings of my own along with my peers. The results proved telling first on the structure occupying our own campus, and subsequently sourced from Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century: ‘Plans, Sections and Elevations’ by author Hilary French. The proposed shape classification has consequently contributed an array of typological solutions, detailed shape analysis, and comparative studies.