Specific ISO/CIE cloudless winter skies in Australia

Kittler, Richard; Darula, Stanislav

doi:10.1080/00038628.2019.1646632

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“…Australia is distinguished by the frequent bright and cloudless skies even in winter, whilst European countries experience overcast skies during winter that are deemed critical in terms of daylight illumination and window design (Kittler and Darula, 2019). Useful Daylight illuminances (UDI) has a significant role in the maintenance of indoor comfort.…”

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Optimum external shading system for counterbalancing glare probability and daylight illuminance in Sydney's residential buildings

Sorooshnia¹,

Rashidi²,

Rahnamayiezekavat

et al. 2021

ECAM

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PurposeOptimisation of daylight admission through window is crucial for alleviating glare while maintaining useful daylight levels in order to enhance occupants' health, visual comfort and moderating lighting energy consumption. Amongst various solutions, fixed external shade is an affordable solution for housing spaces that need to be sophisticatedly designed, especially during the period of increasing home spaces as working environments. In the humid subtropical region, daylight control plays an important role in indoor comfort, particularly with areas with a high window to wall ratio (WWR). Due to the insufficient amount of such study on non-office spaces in Australia, shading-related standards are not addressed in Australian building codes.Design/methodology/approachThe chosen methodology for the research is a quantitative data collection and analysis through field measurement and simulation simultaneously. The first step is a multi-objective optimisation of shading elements through a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) on parametric modelling via Rhino3D CAD and simulation engines (DIVA and ClimateStudio). In the second phase, the Pareto front solutions are validated by experimental measurements within a room with a single north-facing window (the most probable for the daytime glare in Sydney) for the seven most common local window configurations.FindingsThrough the simulation of ten genes, 1,560 values and 2.4 × 1,019 of search space, this study found an optimum shade for each local common window layout, resulted in +22% in (UDI) and −16% in views with discomfort glare on average. Moreover, an all-purpose polygonal shade showed an average of 4.6% increase in UDI and a 5.83% decrease in the percentage of views with discomfort glare.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings are subject to the room dimensions, window dimensions and layouts, and orientation of windows for selected residential buildings in Sydney.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the development of highly accurate fixed external shading systems with rectangular and tapered-form external shapes. A real-time measurement by luminance-metre sensors and HQ cameras located at six eye levels is conducted to corroborate simulation results of the visual comfort.

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