Finding the proper trade-off between blocking direct sunlight, ensuring sufficient indoor daylighting and view out is a particularly delicate task especially in arid climates, due to harsh environmental conditions. As a tentative answer to this challenge, an adaptive shading and daylighting system (Shape Variable Mashrabiya – SVM) has been developed by the authors, described in an earlier paper. In this paper, we analyze how the SVM may affect annual lighting and global primary energy performance of an office building in Abu Dhabi: the SVM was applied to east and west façades and compared to external Venetian blinds, reflective and selective glazing.

Lighting and Energy Performance of an Adaptive Shading and Daylighting System for Arid Climates / Giovannini, Luigi; LO VERSO, VALERIO ROBERTO MARIA; Karamata, Boris; Andersen, Marilyne. - In: ENERGY PROCEDIA. - ISSN 1876-6102. - ELETTRONICO. - 78:(2015), pp. 370-375. [10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.675]

Lighting and Energy Performance of an Adaptive Shading and Daylighting System for Arid Climates

GIOVANNINI, LUIGI;LO VERSO, VALERIO ROBERTO MARIA;
2015

Abstract

Finding the proper trade-off between blocking direct sunlight, ensuring sufficient indoor daylighting and view out is a particularly delicate task especially in arid climates, due to harsh environmental conditions. As a tentative answer to this challenge, an adaptive shading and daylighting system (Shape Variable Mashrabiya – SVM) has been developed by the authors, described in an earlier paper. In this paper, we analyze how the SVM may affect annual lighting and global primary energy performance of an office building in Abu Dhabi: the SVM was applied to east and west façades and compared to external Venetian blinds, reflective and selective glazing.
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