Daylight at home

Daylight at home

[SHS:ARCHI] Humanities and Social Sciences/Architecture, space management

daylight

domestic architecture

The research studies the day-lighting and sun-lighting of the living space of six models of houses design by architects and developers. These models were the result of a typological study of two groups of affordable medium-sized detached houses located in northwest France (225 real-estate development houses and 78 architectural competition houses with no specific client). The results show that all the models allow a satisfactory to very satisfactory level of daylight and sunlight. The differences appear in the way that the light is distributed, while the developers houses present smaller openings with several orientations resulting in a longer day-lighting autonomy, architectural competition houses offer a more heterogeneous disposition of openings with a predominance of the big mono-oriented opening that creates harsh contrasts and glare.

Rodriguez, Gabriel

Siret, Daniel

Clever Design Affordable comfort : PLEA 2006 23rd international conference on passive and low energy architecture, conference proceedings

Clever Design Affordable comfort PLEA 2006

2006

ENG

conference proceeding

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00575912

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/57/59/12/PDF/2006_rodriguez_siret_PLEA_daylight_at_home_developpers_versus_architects.pdf

Genève

Switzerland