A Study on the Formation of Indoor Daylight Conditions with Respect To the Urban Landscape
Abstract
Nowadays the benefits of daylight on every aspect of human life are well known. Several strategies have been developed in order to exploit the daylight and enhance the visual conditions indoors. However, these techniques cannot always be implemented successfully, since the dense urban fabric of the modern cities often prevents daylight from reaching deep into the spaces. Therefore, it is very important to study the availability of daylight under realistic conditions at an early stage of the design process particularly for spaces that face obstructions, in order to be able to confront potential problems caused by a poorly lit environment. Such a study should include the analysis of the daylight availability in the region, as well as the investigation of the effect of the obstruction’s characteristics on the determination of indoor daylight conditions and the energy requirements for lighting. The implementation of such a study in the Greek region forms the main objective of this paper, the steps and the findings of which are presented below analytically.