TY - JOUR
T1 - Strategies to control daylight in a responsive skylight system
AU - Henriques, Gonçalo Castro
AU - Duarte, José Pinto
AU - Leal, Vitor
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the support of all participants in the project, including Carvalho Brito in programming languages, and Soeiro Ferreira in decision theory, both from the University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering, Department Industrial Engineering and Management. Gonçalo Castro Henriques is funded by grant /BD/39034/2007 from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal.
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - This research aims to develop a skylight system that responds to both external, environmental conditions and adjustable internal functional demands. The system adapts to different geometries, uses, locations, times and sky conditions. In the design process, the disposition and size of skylights are customized to the context. After construction, the apertures of the skylights control interior conditions. This paper focuses on the dynamic process to control daylight using a case study. The goal is to assure adequate illuminance and low visual contrast. Parametric and environmental software analysis is used to generate and assess solutions. Heuristics strategies are developed to find adequate configurations, given that optimization methods are time and resource consuming. The performance of such configurations is evaluated in specific conditions. An interpolation method is proposed to find configurations adequate to other conditions. A friendly-interface allows selecting the best configuration in real-time using multi-criteria.
AB - This research aims to develop a skylight system that responds to both external, environmental conditions and adjustable internal functional demands. The system adapts to different geometries, uses, locations, times and sky conditions. In the design process, the disposition and size of skylights are customized to the context. After construction, the apertures of the skylights control interior conditions. This paper focuses on the dynamic process to control daylight using a case study. The goal is to assure adequate illuminance and low visual contrast. Parametric and environmental software analysis is used to generate and assess solutions. Heuristics strategies are developed to find adequate configurations, given that optimization methods are time and resource consuming. The performance of such configurations is evaluated in specific conditions. An interpolation method is proposed to find configurations adequate to other conditions. A friendly-interface allows selecting the best configuration in real-time using multi-criteria.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.autcon.2012.06.002
DO - 10.1016/j.autcon.2012.06.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84865338141
SN - 0926-5805
VL - 28
SP - 91
EP - 105
JO - Automation in Construction
JF - Automation in Construction
ER -