Developing and optimizing of shading devices to improve daylight performance of glass and transparent domes

Amin alah Ahadi

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Developing and optimizing of shading devices to improve daylight performance of glass and transparent domes

30 September 2022. pp. 328-348

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Domes have a long architectural history. The structural efficiency, aesthetic and symbolic aspects, acoustical performance and the applications of domes in climatic design have caused that the construction of the domes be continuous in the modern world. The lighting of large spaces under the domes has been a challenge for architects from the past to the present. Today, many of the modern domes have been made by glass and transparent materials and one of the important performances of these modern domes is daylighting. In this regard glare and overheating due to direct sun radiation exposure in connected spaces to glass domes are important problems which have received less attention. The optimizing of daylight performance of glass transparent domes by appropriate shading devices is the main goal of this research. In this regard, a multi-storey light shelf has been selected as shading device for the intended glass dome of this current study and its characteristics has been optimized by several modeling and simulations using Daysim software. Also, the optimal shape of dome and estimating the daylighting efficiency of the proposed dome and its optimized light shelf have been investigated. The selection of optimal models in this study was based on the appropriate annual UDI and its distribution in horizontal and vertical sections of models. The results of this study shows while the diameter of the dome is ‘d’, the best length of light shelf is “d/20” and the optimal distance between light shelves is “d/20”, the best horizontal position of light shelf is the half of the light shelf inside the glass dome and half outside and the optimal slope of light shelfs is -10 degrees. Also, the simulation results show that with the same light shelf characteristics and dome span length, increasing dome height increases the annual UDI value with the value of correlation coefficient of 0.4531 in vertical and 0.8369 in horizontal section of model. The daylighting efficiency of the proposed dome and its optimized light shelf has been estimated up to the height of ‘2.05d’ under the dome considering the penetration amount of appropriate daylight.

Keywords

shading devices

daylight performance

dynamic daylight metrics

glass and transparent domes

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Publisher :Sustainable Building Research Center (ERC) Innovative Durable Building and Infrastructure Research Center
Publisher(Ko) :건설구조물 내구성혁신 연구센터
Journal Title :International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development
Volume : 13
No :3
Pages :328-348
Received Date : 2022-05-12
Accepted Date : 2022-09-24
DOI :https://doi.org/10.22712/susb.20220025

International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development ISSN:2093-761X(Print) 2093-7628(Online)

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