Posters addressing aspects of both tracks "inside daylight" and "insise - out daylight" will be displayed at the conference venue.
Daylighting and solar control are fundamental aspects of building design, especially for modern architecture marked by large glazed building envelopes. Visual and thermal comfort, heat gains, and, ultimately, energy consumption can be controlled with the correct management of solar penetration, which has become an essential element of facade design aimed at decarbonizing the construction...
Renovation of existing residential buildings is acknowledged as an important and effective measure to increase efficiency of the building stock and thus decreasing energy use and related GHG emissions. However, substituting the old windows with new, better insulating windows has an influence on daylight availability. Daylight and solar radiation have a well-known influence on human health, by...
Decision-making at gynaecological emergency room is highly important and quality care is fundamental. Combinations of distinctive features in a patient result in the recognition of a disease, and visual cues are particularly prone to misinterpretation. Furthermore, fatigue and circadian disruption can have a negative impact on the clinic. Research on daylighting in hospital environments has...
Dense urban spaces are strongly affected by the consequences of urban heat island effects and global warming. The pressing need for a sustainable urban metabolism necessitates the following query: To what extent can the understanding of micro-climate analysis in particular outdoor daylight studies drive an informed urban design approach in order mitigate the effect of urban heat islands in...
The building sector currently accounts for around 40% of global energy use and GHG emissions and there has been significant research in the recent decade in several engineering disciplines to upgrade building performance with the minimum disturbance to the building interior conditions. As countries race to build climate resilience, the shift from low-density suburban to high-density urban has...
In 2021 an innovative new research platform to explore the basics, applied and clinical aspects of daylight on humans has been created. The “integrative Human Circadian Daylight Platform” (iHCDP) has the vision to improve general health, quality of life and living conditions across the live span by using daylight. For this purpose, the impact of daylight will be systematically assessed, and...
A chronic housing shortage combined with an increase of population in Sweden has led to a boom of new construction in the country´s cities. New developments are quickly being produced while spatial planning is still heavily reliant on traditional planning methods. Sweden constitutes an interesting case as densification is the preferred method to create more sustainable cities both financially...
