Daylighting: Architecture and Lighting Design

✍ Scribed by Peter Tregenza, Michael Wilson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This authoritative and multi-disciplinary book provides architects, lighting specialists, and anyone else working daylight into design, with all the tools needed to incorporate this most fundamental element of architecture.

It includes:

• an overview of current practice of daylighting in architecture and urban planning
• a review of recent research on daylighting and what this means to the practitioner
• a global vision of architectural lighting which is linked to the climates of the world and which integrates view, sunlight, diffuse skylight and electric lighting
• up-to-date tools for design in practice
• delivery of information in a variety of ways for interdisciplinary readers: graphics, mathematics, text, photographs and in-depth illustrations
• a clear structure: eleven chapters covering different aspects of lighting, a set of worksheets giving step-by-step examples of calculations and design procedures for use in practice, and a collection of algorithms and equations for reference by specialists and software designers.

This book should trigger creative thought. It recognizes that good lighting design needs both knowledge and imagination.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Daylighting: Architecture and lighting design
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
How to use this book
one Criteria of good daylighting
The essentials
Physical measures and what we see
Health 1: the need for regular exposure to daylight
Health 2: the need for a view
The creation of place
Work and comfort
Display
two What light does
Luminous energy
Light in the atmosphere
Light on a surface and Lambert’s law
Large sources, small sources and ideal sources
An infinite plane of light and the concept of luminance
Parallel beams
Surfaces and the nature of reflection
An infinity of reflections
The daylit room
A summary
A homily
three The daylight climate
The luminous atmosphere
The geometry of sunlight
Daylight availability
Luminance distribution of the sky
The whole climate
four Daylight and the form of buildings
Climate, environment and structure
Sunlight 1: shading and shape
Sunlight 2: sunshades and solar collectors
Sunlight 3: using reflected sunlight to illuminate rooms
Light from the diffuse sky
Electric lighting during daytime
The view to outside
Maintenance
Imagination
five Energy and control
Daylight and energy
Control systems
Calculating energy use
Closed loop control algorithms
six Standards, design guidance and development control
What standards must do
Evidence and judgement
A spectrum of design guidance
Daylight criteria 1: minimum acceptable conditions in dwellings
Daylight criteria 2: minimum acceptable conditions for desk-based workspaces
Daylight standards in urban planning
Conclusions
Discussion
seven Daylight factors
The average daylight factor
Correlations and variations
Atria, arcades and greenhouses
Daylight at a point
The horizon factor
eight Daylight illuminance
Illuminance and daylight factors
Illuminance from reflected sunlight
Skylight and sunlight in the urban canyon
Trees, distant surfaces and shiny façades
The accuracy of lighting measurements and calculations
nine Collecting daylight: windows, light pipes and other devices
Transmittance
Estimating transmittance
Glass and glazing
Light pipes
Light shelves
Heliostats
ten Daylight coefficients and numerical models
The fundamental equation
Subdivision of the sky
Calculating daylight coefficients: finite area methods
Samples of rays: the Monte Carlo method
An outline of a program
The use of daylight coefficients
Daylight coefficients and dot diagrams
Finally …
eleven Notes and references
Further reading: general books
General notes
Illustrations
Chapter notes
References
Worksheets
Algorithms and Equations
Index

✦ Subjects

Lighting