Climate-Based Daylight Modeling (CBDM) for an atrium: An experimentally validated novel daylight performance

Sudan, Madhu; Mistrick, Richard G.; Tiwari, G.N.

doi:10.1016/j.solener.2017.09.067

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“…The latest method for evaluating daylight performance is climate-based daylight modeling (CBDM), which is a dynamic method based on real daylight climate data hour by hour throughout the year, making daylight simulation more accurate and reliable. CBDM provides various metrics for evaluating daylight performance, such as spatial daylight autonomy (sDA), annual sunlight exposure (ASE), and useful daylight illuminance (UDI) [5][6][7]12,13,30,31]. Therefore, the Shandong Jinan (CSWD) file downloaded from https://energyplus.net/weather (accessed on 23 November 2021) serves as the weather file for the later daylight simulation study.…”

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“…Decreasing the use of artificial lighting is of great significance for lowering the total energy consumption in commercial buildings. A commercial building's atrium not only connects interior spaces but also is a place for social activities, thus bearing aesthetic and iconic features as well as providing light to the core of the building [5]. Atriums are widely used by designers in commercial building design because they usually have a daylight roof, which is one of the most commonly used elements in the design of indoor shopping malls.…”

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A Study on Parametric Design Method for Optimization of Daylight in Commercial Building’s Atrium in Cold Regions

Xue

Liu

2022

Sustainability

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With the development of urbanization, more and more commercial buildings are built in cities, which is resulting in a large amount of building energy consumption that threatens the ecological environment of the earth. Lighting energy in commercial buildings occupies a large proportion of consumption, and improving the quality of natural daylight in commercial atriums is of great significance for building energy efficiency as well as improving indoor comfort. This paper proposes a method for optimizing the daylight quality of commercial atriums. Starting from the perspective of parametric design, this paper investigates the current status and theoretical research on the natural daylight of commercial atriums in cold regions, taking Jinan, China, as an example. Dynamic daylight and glare simulations were performed using Rhino + Grasshopper and Ladybug + Honeybee for every design parameter in the system, followed by correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis using SPSS to determine the degree of influence of each design parameter on the daylight quality of the atrium. Based on the results of the above analysis, the multi-objective optimization plug-in Octopus is used to find the combination of design parameters that can achieve the best indoor daylight. The results show that among a total of fourteen atrium design parameters, seven of them are significantly correlated with atrium daylight, and after regression analysis, it is found that the atrium design parameters affect the atrium daylight and glare in the following order: Skylight VT, Skylight ratio, Atrium inclination, Fabric coverage, Fabric VT, Wall reflectivity, Roof reflectivity. The optimal design parameters for commercial atrium daylight quality are obtained according to the Pareto front solution set, which provides some reference and ideas for improving the optimization of commercial atrium daylight in cold regions of China.

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A Study on Parametric Design Method for Optimization of Daylight in Commercial Building’s Atrium in Cold Regions

Xue

Liu

2022

Sustainability

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“…Several researchers [5] , [6] , [7] emphasized the significance of the different design factors on enhancing daylight into spaces. Others explored skylights and top-lit openings’ effect on daylight [8] . Acosta et al [9] embraced the positive influence of optimized skylights on attaining high visual comfort and enhancing solar distribution into space.…”

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Optimizing daylight utilization of flat skylights in heritage buildings

Marzouk

ElSharkawy

Mahmoud

2022

Journal of Advanced Research

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“…Atrium buildings firstly emerged in the 19th century [10]. The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) [11] defines atriums as an interior space enclosed by building walls that permit the entry of daylight, linking spaces from transparent openings on the roof or sides. Thus, an atrium can draw daylight to both interior and adjacent spaces and provide better connections to interior spaces [12].…”

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“…Thus, an atrium can draw daylight to both interior and adjacent spaces and provide better connections to interior spaces [12]. These features make atriums a ubiquitous architectural component, used in various building types [4,10,11,[13][14][15], and it has been increasingly seen from modern commercial buildings [1,13]. However, acquiring daylighting from atriums has one recognized problem: the visual comfort, discomfort glare probability (DGP) can be used to indicate the level of visual discomfort from glare [9,33,34], but the limitations are still noticeable.…”

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Glazing Sizing in Large Atrium Buildings: A Perspective of Balancing Daylight Quantity and Visual Comfort

Ban

Chen

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Energies

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Due to the multiple benefits on energy, well-being, comfort, and the economy, the utilization of daylight remains an imperative topic of architectural design. With the remarkable ability of drawing and increasing daylight deep into the core of buildings, atriums with a large proportion of glazing have become one of the most preferred design forms. The concomitant and unexpected visual discomfort in modern buildings, however, has drawn increasing concerns. Therefore, this study investigated the relation between glazing proportion and daylight performance, as well as the impact of building height and atrium types on daylight performance in atrium buildings by using an annual dynamic simulation method and metrics. It was found that extending glazing proportion had prominent effectiveness in the enhancement of daylighting; building height had a negative influence; round and square types of buildings performed much better than rectangular ones. Moreover, to inform a practical design, we analyzed the link between increasing daylight and visual comfort from the perspective of balancing them, and then proposed a design guide for atrium roof-glazing sizing.

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Climate-Based Daylight Modeling (CBDM) for an atrium: An experimentally validated novel daylight performance

Cited by 19 publications

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A Study on Parametric Design Method for Optimization of Daylight in Commercial Building’s Atrium in Cold Regions

A Study on Parametric Design Method for Optimization of Daylight in Commercial Building’s Atrium in Cold Regions

Optimizing daylight utilization of flat skylights in heritage buildings

Glazing Sizing in Large Atrium Buildings: A Perspective of Balancing Daylight Quantity and Visual Comfort

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