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Frontiers of Architectural Research

ISSN 2095-2635

ISSN 2095-2643(Online)

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Front. Archit. Res.    2023, Vol. 12 Issue (5) : 1030-1046    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2023.07.001
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Solar radiation-based method for early design stages to balance daylight and thermal comfort in office buildings
Abel Sepúlveda1,2(), Seyed Shahabaldin Seyed Salehi1, Francesco De Luca1, Martin Thalfeldt1,3
1. Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn 19086, Estonia
2. Institute of Design and Civil Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany
3. FinEst Centre for Smart Cities (FinEst Centre), Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn 19086, Estonia
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Abstract

There is a lack of facade design methods for early design stages to balance thermal comfort and daylight provision that consider the obstruction angle as an independent variable without using modeling and simulations. This paper aims to develop easy-to use solar radiation-based prediction method for the design of office building facades (i.e., design parameters: room size, window-to-floor ratio, and glazing thermal/optical properties) located in urban canyons to balance daylight provision according to the European standard EN 17037:2018 and thermal comfort through specific cooling capacity. We used a simulation-based methodology that includes correlation analyses between building performance metrics and design parameters, the development of design workflows, accuracy analysis, and validation through the application of the workflows to a new development office building facades located in Tallinn, Estonia. The validation showed that the mean percentage of right/conservative predictions of thermal comfort classes is 98.8% whereas for daylight provision, it is higher than 75.6%. The use of the proposed prediction method can help designers to work more efficiently during early design stages and to obtain optimal performative solutions in much shorter time: window sizing in 73,152 room combinations in 80 s.

Keywords Cooling sizing      Cold climate      Solar access      Daylight      View out      Window sizing     
Corresponding Author(s): Abel Sepúlveda   
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Peng Lei and Charity Ngina Mwangi contributed equally to this work.

Issue Date: 27 October 2023
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Abel Sepúlveda,Seyed Shahabaldin Seyed Salehi,Francesco De Luca, et al. Solar radiation-based method for early design stages to balance daylight and thermal comfort in office buildings[J]. Front. Archit. Res., 2023, 12(5): 1030-1046.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/foar/EN/10.1016/j.foar.2023.07.001
https://academic.hep.com.cn/foar/EN/Y2023/V12/I5/1030
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