Effect of Adaptive Facades on Daylight -An Analytical Study in Hot Arid Climate

AHMED, DOAA; ABDELKADER, MORAD; NESSIM, ASHRAF

doi:10.21608/aaj.2023.287433

Effect of Adaptive Facades on Daylight -An Analytical Study in Hot Arid Climate

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Ph.D. researcher from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Ain shams University, Egypt- Teaching Assistant of Architecture, October High Institute for Engineering and Technology-Giza, Egypt

² Professor of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Ain shams University, Egypt.

³ Asst. Professor of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Ain shams University, Egypt.

10.21608/aaj.2023.287433

Abstract

Adaptive façades respond to outdoor and indoor stimuli to provide a design solution that enhances the visual comfort of office space[1].The visual comfort is improved by solving useful daylight illuminance and glare simulation, which is performed in this paper using Rhino software, algorithmic modelling by Grasshopper and Diva with Galapagos interface to explore the applicability of parametric design to increase daylight performance and decrease glare[2].
The principal aim of this paper is to estimate the effect of sunscreen configuration on achieving a balance between enough illuminance level and glare uniformity inside a selected space.

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