Optimization of a mirrored venetian blind with individually adjustable slats
Student: Molly McGuire (Building Technology), Advisors: Prof. Leon Glicksman, Prof. Marilyne Andersen
This project is focusing on daylighting solutions for commercial buildings. The overall goal of the research is to develop a daylighting system that will provide adequate light for occupants as far as 30 feet from the window.
To achieve this, the relationship between blind angle and interior light distribution
and intensity has to be investigated, starting by studying the transmission
properties of an advanced window fenestration system using reflective blinds.
Within the framework of this project, a collaboration with the Daylighting
Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne will
take place in early 2005, supported by a travel grant from the Cambridge
Science Foundation. This work was presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting for
the Alliance for Global Sustainability and at the American Solar Energy Society's "Solar
2004" Conference.