The residential solar block envelope: A method for enabling the development of compact urban blocks with high passive solar potential

Vartholomaios, Aristotelis

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2015.04.046

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“…The wide and deep lower floors of such buildings did not use daylight and required mechanical ventilation, which cannot be considered as an environmentally and energy-efficient approach to building design. There are a large number of variations and modifications to the solar envelope method (Hraška, 2004;Morello, 2009;Vartholomaios, 2015;Cotton, 1996). Most publications on this topic address the technical side of the problem.…”

Section: Republic Of Koreamentioning

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Approaches, Methods and Tools of Rights of Access to Sunlight around the World

Hraška

2019

Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering

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Sunlight has always played an important role in the design of human settlements. Well-designed urban structures, especially in moderate or cold climates, should be assured of direct sunlight in indoor living spaces and also in public spaces. Direct sunlight in a built environment is an important factor for health and well-being, the effective functioning of solar systems, and sustainable construction. However, many problems involved in the exercise of rights of access to sunlight can arise when sunlight is obscured by a tall cityscape. Many states, regions, and cities regulate solar access, but solar rights and landowner rights are in a permanent conflict. The high urban density of many cities with tall skyscrapers accentuates the problem of the availability of sunlight. This paper presents a review of existing regulations and metrics for ensuring the availability of direct sunlight in buildings and of assessment methods that have been adopted in multiple countries and cities. Approaches, methods, and tools of rights of access to sunlight are critically analyzed. The paper also details experiences from former socialist countries where strict long-term strict on direct access to sunlight in flats were applied.

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Section: Republic Of Koreamentioning

confidence: 99%

Approaches, Methods and Tools of Rights of Access to Sunlight around the World

Hraška

2019

Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering

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“…From the perspective of urban planning, blocks are often regarded as spatial units, and the overall urban spatial form is studied in terms of development capacity, density, height, and other indexes. From the perspective of architecture, blocks are regarded as space carriers in architectural design and have been studied in terms of urban space vitality from the perspective of urban streets and urban interfaces; the quantification and comparison of block form by fabric [32], scale, diversity, complexity, and other indexes [33], [34]; the correlation of street network structure with block form [35], [36], and form parameters and their association with environmental climate [37], [38], [39].…”

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Investigating the Intensive Redevelopment of Urban Central Blocks Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Deep Learning: A Case Study of Nanjing, China

Leng

Jie

2019

IEEE Access

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Intensification of morphology of blocks, which are the basic units of urban form and land management, is the key to sustainable urban development. Taking 206 blocks of Nanjing's central city area as an example, an evaluation system featuring six output-oriented indicators and five input-oriented indicators was constructed for data envelopment analysis to measure the blocks' intensity level. Relatively intensive blocks were selected as training data, and the output-oriented indicators of non-intensive blocks were predicted by a deep learning model, completing the procedure from evaluation of intensity to optimisation of morphological indicators. Finally, using the difference calculation and Arctool of weighted overlay in ArcGIS, a reference for the optimisation design of urban block morphology was created.

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“…Yamaguchi et al [8] investigated the impact of form and type of urban block on building energy consumption and concluded that by designing the appropriate form and type of building blocks, the amount of carbon dioxide produced by the buildings can be reduced from 90% to 60%. Vartholomaios [9,10] examined the energy consumption of several types of building forms in the Mediterranean climate by utilizing the Energy Plus software, and revealed that the linear block with the east-west direction was the most suitable mode in order to receive sunlight, and gave the best performance in terms of energy consumption. Taleghani et al [11] also investigated the impact of residential buildings on energy consumption and lighting in the Netherlands by means of the Design Builder software with respect to simulating the energy and lighting consumption.…”

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The Impact of Archetype Patterns in Office Buildings on the Annual Cooling, Heating and Lighting Loads in Hot-Humid, Hot-Dry and Cold Climates of Iran

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Extensive cost in the building industry comes from cooling and heating to create thermal comfort. Hence, it is necessary to utilize passive solutions, in addition to suitable design, in order to reduce energy consumption. This research attempts to investigate the impact of archetype patterns in office buildings on annual energy consumption for cooling, heating and daylight loads. For this purpose, the DesignBuilder software was used to compare the forms. In this study, four conventional construction forms were considered, including the single and dense form, central courtyard buildings, U form and linear form, and each was considered with two, four and six-stories. Forms were simulated in the three cities of Bushehr, Shiraz and Tabriz, with hot-humid, hot-dry and cold climates, respectively. The results revealed that the office building with a linear form in Bushehr had the lowest energy consumption in the two and four-story forms, and also in the six-story form, the central courtyard form had the lowest energy consumption. Additionally, the central courtyard forms in Tabriz and Shiraz had the lowest energy consumption in all cases. Finally, the linear form possessed the most natural daylight through all of the studied cases for the three cities in terms of natural light gain.

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The residential solar block envelope: A method for enabling the development of compact urban blocks with high passive solar potential

Cited by 51 publications

References 21 publications

Approaches, Methods and Tools of Rights of Access to Sunlight around the World

Approaches, Methods and Tools of Rights of Access to Sunlight around the World

Investigating the Intensive Redevelopment of Urban Central Blocks Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Deep Learning: A Case Study of Nanjing, China

The Impact of Archetype Patterns in Office Buildings on the Annual Cooling, Heating and Lighting Loads in Hot-Humid, Hot-Dry and Cold Climates of Iran

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