Balancing solar shading, daylighting and glare with translucent louvers
Conference
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OSTI ID:361847
- Univ. of Westminster, London (United Kingdom). Research in Building Group
Successful design of comfortable low-energy office buildings implicitly requires careful consideration for solar shading, daylighting, and the control of glare. Yet these inherently intertwined issues often demand conflicting design responses that pose difficult challenges for designers who frequently discover that successfully addressing one issue means sacrificing the performance with another. This is most commonly observed when excessive shading and glare control strategies reduce interior daylighting so significantly that electric lighting is operated at full capacity directly adjacent to fully glazed facades. The new Phoenix office building at England`s Building Research Establishment (BRE) employs an operable external translucent louver system along its southern facade to achieve a reasonable balance of these issues without significantly sacrificing individual performance. This paper describes the configuration and developmental processes for this system.
- OSTI ID:
- 361847
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970441--; ISBN 0-89553-212-3
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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