Shaping the slats of hospital patient room window blinds for daylighting and external view under desert clear skies

Sherif, Ahmed; Sabry, Hanan; Wagdy, Ayman; Mashaly, Islam A.; Arafa, Rasha

doi:10.1016/j.solener.2016.03.053

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“…In another research by Sherif et al (2016), the daylighting performance of horizontal blind slats with different shapes was investigated in an outboard bathroom patient room located in Cairo, Egypt (Sherif, et al, 2016). Parametric tools and simulations were conducted to test 77 possible slat shapes that achieve the criteria of 100% daylit bed surface area and 55% of the patient room area and also to maximize external view accessibility.…”

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“…As mentioned in similar papers, another criterion was taken under consideration that the sDA percentage should achieve 100% of the bed surface area (Wagdy, et al, 2017;Sherif, et al, 2016). This criterion was explicitly devised to reflect the strict needs of patient care in hospital patient rooms to aid in the healing process.…”

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Double-Skin Facades in Healing Environments: An Approach for Enhancing Daylighting Performance in South-Oriented Patient Rooms in Cairo, Egypt

Al-Shafaey

Abdelkader

Sabry

et al. 2020

Engineering Research Journal

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Daylighting provision is an efficient approach in achieving a healing environment. Several researches praised the effect of daylight on stress reduction, shorter hospital length of stay, and the increasing of patients' satisfaction. The building façade has the primary role in controlling the indoor environment. In addition to daylighting, Double-Skin Façade (DSF) is an approach that can create a balance between patients' needs without sacrificing energy reduction and thermal comfort in the hot arid desert climate. This paper aimed at investigating the effect of fixed horizontal louvers integration in a multi-story double-skin façade to enhance daylighting performance and visual comfort in south-oriented patient rooms located in Cairo, Egypt. Rhinoceros software was used for modeling the proposed designs coupled with Diva-4-Rhino for daylighting simulations. The effect of changing louver's depth and slats' number resulted in 16 designs that were modeled for examination. Daylighting performance was analyzed by two metrics; Spatial Daylight Autonomy (sDA) and Annual Sunlight Exposure (ASE) on both the room surface floor and bed surface planes to represent daylight distribution and visual discomfort, respectively. Results showed that all cases were successful, achieving 100% sDA value on the bed plane area. However, the sDA and ASE values at the room floor area were different. Three louvered double-skin façade designs have succeeded in meeting sDA and ASE acceptance criteria and were recommended for integrating in patient rooms. Also, it was noticed that the unshaded double-skin façade presented the worst performance.

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Double-Skin Facades in Healing Environments: An Approach for Enhancing Daylighting Performance in South-Oriented Patient Rooms in Cairo, Egypt

Al-Shafaey

Abdelkader

Sabry

et al. 2020

Engineering Research Journal

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“…It uses the real weather data of the examined location. Hence, it considers the dynamics of climatic changes in a certain location in an entire year, not the sky conditions at a certain time (Sherif et al, 2016). ASE is adapted as glare metrics in the daylight credit in LEED v4.…”

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“…One method has been used by means of answering a number of questions by participant (Hellinga et al, 2014). Some studies have evaluated these metrics by computer simulations (Wageh and Gadelhak, 2017), (Tzempelikos, 2008), (Sherif et al, 2016). A multifunctional building in Italy was investigated by this method (Wageh and Gadelhak, 2017).…”

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Optimization of Building Façade to Control Daylight Excessiveness and View to Outside

Nadiri¹,

Mahdavinejad

Pilechiha

2019

Journal of Applied Engineering Sciences

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Windows and shading devices play a significant role in designing building facades to control the rate of the received daylight and improve visual comfort. This study is aimed to provide an optimization basis for building’s façade considering two variables of Annual Sun Exposure (ASE (1000/250h)) and the view to outside of an office. In this research, the effect of various parameters of shading louvers to the south was investigated in Tehran, Iran. The parameters were number, depth, angle as well as thickness. In this review, Rhino/Grasshopper plug was employed for simulations; moreover, Galapagos evolutionary solver component was used to run the optimization process. This study’s findings showed that it was possible to reach a view of nearly 90% of the interior spaces while the value of ASE (1000/250h) still remained in the reasonable range.

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“…In recent years, there has been dramatic increase in employing Grasshopper [25] with daylighting, glare simulation as well as per-pixel post-processing applications [26][27][28][29][30]. Grasshopper is a 3D parametric modelling extension plug-in for Rhinoceros.…”

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A Parametric Method for Remapping and Calibrating Fisheye Images for Glare Analysis

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Hansen

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High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging using a fisheye lens has provided new opportunities to evaluate the luminous environment in visual comfort research. For glare analysis, strict calibration is necessary to extract accurate luminous maps to achieve reliable glare results. Most studies have focused on correcting the vignetting effect in HDR imaging during post-calibration. However, the lens projection also contributes to luminous map errors because of its inherent distortion. To date, there is no simple method to correct this distortion phenomenon for glare analysis. This paper presents a parametric-based methodology to correct the projection distortion from fisheye lenses for the specific use in glare analysis. HDR images were captured to examine two devices: a 190 • equisolid SIGMA 8 mm F3.5 EX DG fisheye lens mounted on a Canon 5D camera, and a 195 • fisheye commercial lens with an unknown projection, mounted on the rear camera of a Samsung Galaxy S7. A mathematical and geometrical model was developed to remap each pixel to correct the projection distortion using Grasshopper and MATLAB. The parametric-based method was validated using Radiance and MATLAB through checking the accuracy of pixel remapping and measuring color distortion with Structural Similarity Index (SSIM). Glare scores were used to compare the results between both devices, which validates the use of mobile phones in photometric research. The results showed that this method can be used to correct HDR images projection distortion for more accurate evaluation of the luminous environment in glare research.

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Shaping the slats of hospital patient room window blinds for daylighting and external view under desert clear skies

Cited by 33 publications

References 9 publications

Double-Skin Facades in Healing Environments: An Approach for Enhancing Daylighting Performance in South-Oriented Patient Rooms in Cairo, Egypt

Double-Skin Facades in Healing Environments: An Approach for Enhancing Daylighting Performance in South-Oriented Patient Rooms in Cairo, Egypt

Optimization of Building Façade to Control Daylight Excessiveness and View to Outside

A Parametric Method for Remapping and Calibrating Fisheye Images for Glare Analysis

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