Light Management Lessons from Nature for Building Applications

Badarnah, Lidia

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2016.04.049

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“…Since biomimicry Topdown approach (Fig. 5) defines human desires or design problem, then it uses meaningful exploration in nature to find appropriate solutions, [16,19,[49][50][51] many researchers applied Top-down approach which has more popularity in implementation [51].…”

Section: Biomimicry Morphological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biomimetic Kinetic Shading Facade Inspired by Tree Morphology for Improving Occupant’s Daylight Performance

Hosseini

Fadli

Mohammadi

2021

Journal of Daylighting

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Many recent studies in the field of the kinetic façade developed the grid-based modular forms through primary kinetic movements which are restricted in the simple shapes. However, learning from biological analogies reveals that plants and trees provide adjustable daylighting strategies by means of multilayered and curvature morphological changes. This research builds on a relevant literature study, observation, biomimicry morphological approach (top-down), and parametric daylighting simulation to develop a multilayered biomimetic kinetic façade form, inspired by tree morphology to improve occupants’ daylight performance. The first part of the research uses a literature review to explore how biomimicry influences the kinetic façade’s functions. Then, the study applies the biomimicry morphological approach to extract the formal strategies of tress due to dynamic daylight. Concerning functional convergence, the biomimicry principles are translated to the kinetic façade form configuration and movements. The extracted forms and movements are translated into the design solutions for the kinetic façade resulting in the flexible form by using intersected-multilayered skin and kinetic vectors with curvature movements. The comprehensive annual climate-based metrics and luminance-based metric simulation (625 alternatives) confirm the high performance of the bio-inspired complex kinetic façade for improving occupants’ daylight performance and preventing visual discomfort in comparison with the simple plain window as the base case. The kinetic façade provides daylight performance improvement, especially the best case achieves spatial Daylight Autonomy, Useful Daylight Illuminance, and Exceed Useful Daylight Illuminance of 50.6, 85.5, 7.55 respectively.

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Section: Biomimicry Morphological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biomimetic Kinetic Shading Facade Inspired by Tree Morphology for Improving Occupant’s Daylight Performance

Hosseini

Fadli

Mohammadi

2021

Journal of Daylighting

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“…The main challenges remain: the broad range of possibilities, the difficulties in the representation of the biophysical knowledge, and the challenging abstraction and transformation of relevant principles [10]. Nonetheless, the emerging biomimetic methods and frameworks for architectural applications are gaining a systematic trend to facilitate design concept generation, rather than limiting to specific examples [10,45,[60][61][62][63].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The following sections elaborate on these two areas, and define potential convergences to facilitate a biomimetic design process towards environmental adaptation. architectural applications are gaining a systematic trend to facilitate design concept generation, rather than limiting to specific examples [10,45,[60][61][62][63].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The processes of transmission, reflection, refraction, scattering, absorption, and interception are basic means to interacting with a medium for filtering, illuminating, and harnessing light in nature [62]. For example, the silver ragwort scatters light to filter and reduce incident light [81]; the Venus flower-basket illuminates by transmitting light through its intricate structure [82,83]; and some plants maximize interception to harness light [84][85][86].…”

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Form Follows Environment: Biomimetic Approaches to Building Envelope Design for Environmental Adaptation

Badarnah

2017

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Building envelopes represent the interface between the outdoor environment and the indoor occupied spaces. They are often considered as barriers and shields, limiting solutions that adapt to environmental changes. Nature provides a large database of adaptation strategies that can be implemented in design in general, and in the design of building envelopes in particular. Biomimetics, where solutions are obtained by emulating strategies from nature, is a rapidly growing design discipline in engineering, and an emerging field in architecture. This paper presents a biomimetic approach to facilitate the generation of design concepts, and enhance the development of building envelopes that are better suited to their environments. Morphology plays a significant role in the way systems adapt to environmental conditions, and provides a multi-functional interface to regulate heat, air, water, and light. In this work, we emphasize the functional role of morphology for environmental adaptation, where distinct morphologies, corresponding processes, their underlying mechanisms, and potential applications to buildings are distinguished. Emphasizing this morphological contribution to environmental adaptation would enable designers to apply a proper morphology for a desired environmental process, hence promoting the development of adaptive solutions for building envelopes.

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“…Fonseca, Didoné e Pereira (2012) demonstram um comparativo entre dois modelos de aproximação de funções utilizadas para representar o potencial de economia de energia através do uso da iluminação natural em escritórios. Badarnah (2016) concentra-se na fase inicial do processo de projeto baseado na biomimética 2 , apresentando uma estrutura de estratégias para gerenciamento de luz que facilita a busca e a seleção de estratégias apropriadas do grande banco de dados da natureza.…”

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A iluminação natural no projeto de arquitetura: revisão sistemática da literatura

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Scarazzato

2017

PARC Pesq. em Arquit. e Constr.

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Os benefícios da luz do dia nos edifícios são conhecidos: melhor qualidade da iluminação quando comparada com a iluminação artificial, redução do consumo de energia elétrica, impacto positivo na produtividade e desempenho, bem-estar e conforto dos usuários e a descoberta, no início dos anos 2000, de sua influência nos ritmos circadianos. Tais benefícios justificam a inclusão de questões relativas ao aproveitamento da luz do dia já nas primeiras fases do projeto de arquitetura, quando são definidas importantes variáveis do edifício como orientação, volumetria, layout dos ambientes, aberturas e sombreamento. Entretanto, a formação do arquiteto com relação a tais questões raramente vai além de uma abordagem básica. Ferramentas e metodologias de projeto que apoiem as decisões referentes à iluminação natural em estágios iniciais do processo de projeto são, pois, bem-vindas. Seguindo a metodologia de Revisão Sistemática da Literatura (RSL) selecionamos 21 artigos em quatro bases de dados relevantes da área e estabelecemos o filtro entre os anos de 2012 a 2017 e nos idiomas português, espanhol e inglês para identificar o quanto e como está sendo abordada a questão da iluminação natural em estudos atuais que tratam do processo de projeto em arquitetura. Identificamos que é imprescindível na fase inicial do projeto um olhar treinado do projetista e conhecimento dos aspectos da luz do dia para lidar com as questões de iluminação natural no processo de projeto, e deixar para as etapas posteriores, a utilização de softwares de simulação para análises quantitativas.

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Light Management Lessons from Nature for Building Applications

Cited by 17 publications

References 50 publications

Biomimetic Kinetic Shading Facade Inspired by Tree Morphology for Improving Occupant’s Daylight Performance

Biomimetic Kinetic Shading Facade Inspired by Tree Morphology for Improving Occupant’s Daylight Performance

Form Follows Environment: Biomimetic Approaches to Building Envelope Design for Environmental Adaptation

A iluminação natural no projeto de arquitetura: revisão sistemática da literatura

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