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This site provides a series of documents, exercises and step-by-step tutorials that we have been using for teaching Daylighting and Energy Modelling at MIT and Harvard. The focus user groups for this material are Architectural Students, Practicing Designers and Building Science Educators. Feel free to use this material in your courses or practice. If you do, please give due credit to the authors. If you end up improving the material or find any errors, we would certainly be happy to learn from you so that we can keep this information up to date. Your contribution would of ocurse be acknowledged in the updated material. |
| Daylighting and Daylight Simulations | |
| Daylit Area Exercise: A classroom exercise on daylighting that can serve as an introductory, hands-on exercise in any course or module on daylighting. DEvelopment supported by the MIT HASS fund. (Last updated Jul 2012). more>> | |
| Tips for Daylighting Simulations: A checklist of things to consider/remember when carrying our a daylight simulation. (Last updated Mar 2011) Download PDF | |
| Daylighting Analysis in Rhino/Radiance/Daysim/EnergyPlus A series of video tutorials on how to carry out various daylight availability, solar radiation, glare and energy load studies (Mar 2012). Go to DIVA user guide | |
Daylighting Analysis in Ecotect/Radiance/Daysim: Tutorial on how to carry out a daylight factor calculation in Ecotect, a basic glare evaluation in Radiance and a climate-based daylight simulation in Daysim. The devleopment of this document was supported by Kalwall. (Last updated Nov 2006). Download PDF |
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Radiance Material Generator: An Excel spreadsheet that converts measured diffuse reflectance and rgb values of a surface into the corresponding 'Plastic' and 'Glass' Radiance materials (Mar 2012). Download spreadsheet. |
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| Energy Modeling | |
| Energy Simulation Game: Being able to read thermal simulation results and to adapt one's design accordingly has become an essential skill for graduating and practicing architects. This 90-minutes in-class exercise based on DesignBuilder/EnergyPlus helps students to practice this skill. more>> | |
Thermal Analysis: An introduction to thermal simulations using DesignBuilder/EnergyPlus for modeling the annual energy use of a building for heating, cooling and lighting. Development supported by the Harvard Provost Office (Last accessed Sep 2009). Tutorial I Getting Started | Tutorial II Load Schedules | Tutorial III Construction Assemblies |
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| Climate Analysis | |
Climate File Analyzer: An Excel spreadhseet that can be used to display monthly iradiation levels onto various facade orientations, heating and cooling degree days, etc. (Last updated Mar 2012). Download spreadsheet. |
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| Glare | |
High Dynamic Range Photogrpahy and Glare Analysis: Three tutorials on High Dynamic Range Imagery and glare evaluations using Photosphere and Evalglare. Development supported by the Harvard Provost Office (Last accessed Jul 2010). Tutorial I.Definitions | Tutorial II.Photosphere | Tutorial III.Evalglare |
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