Quantifying Daylight in Buildings

Expected Course outcome

The course is designed to aid students/ professionals in the building field to be able to design a building/ space to be well daylit. As daylight is an integral part of the physical and mental wellbeing in one’s life, an Architect must incorporate daylight designing in a building, and the engineer understands the intent behind the design. At the end of the course, participants will have good knowledge of daylighting and its fundamental qualification through daylight performance metrics using Lightstanza.

Instructors

1. Maaz Dixit

Maaz is an Architect and a Building Energy Analyst. She is the founder partner of Neev Energy and Sustainable Solutions firm at Ahmedabad since 2018. She has also worked as a teaching associate at CEPT University from 2017-2019. She has been working in the field of energy consultancy since July 2018 and has been part of nearly ten projects in the last two years.

2. Dharini Sridharan

Dharini is a LEED Green Associate and was a team lead for the certification team with Conserve Consultants Pvt Ltd where she has been part of 30+ projects. She has also been an Academic Associate with CEPT University. Her passion is to contribute to a healthy built environment for the future generations and provide quality living experience to people using  built environment as a tool.

Course Highlights

1. Introduction and background to daylight

2. Introduction to Light stanza

3. Daylight sources

4. Daylight evaluation (manual)

5. Daylight metrics

6. Daylight strategies:

•  Daylight through façade
•  Daylight through roof
•  Advanced daylight strategies

7. Daylighting rules of thumb

8. Daylighting metrics

Point in time

•  Daylight Factor
•  Point in Time

Annual metrics

•  Useful Daylight Illuminance (UDI)
•  Daylight Autonomy (DA)
•  Spatial Daylight Autonomy (sDA)
•  Continuous Daylight Autonomy (cDA)
•  Annual Sunlight Exposure (ASE)
•  Spatial Daylight Saturation (sDs)

9. Case studies

10. Fundamental simulation using daylight simulation software- Light stanza

•  The user interface of Light stanza
•  Modelling guide/ tips
•  Work plane tips and guides
•  Simulations and analysis for various parameters/ scenario like:

1. Sky conditions

2. Times of the day and month

3. A point in time simulation analysis

4. Annual simulations

5. Analyzing daylight metrics

11. Presentation of results by participants (1 or 2 )

Software

Lightstanza is a cloud-based software working in your internet browser, LightStanza runs on the validated Radiance engine and handles complicated calculations with ease. It can import models from software like Google Sketchup, Autodesk Revit, Graphisoft Archicad and Rhinoceros.

Duration of course

•  Date: 30 October to 1 November
•  Duration: 3 days
•  Timings: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Summary of the 3-day schedule

Day 1: Daylight concepts & Practices + Introduction to Lightstanza

Day 2: Daylight concepts & Practices (continued) + Simulation Fundamentals

Day 3: Simulations, analysis and results