Benefits of urban trees are evident from the energy and environmental perspective, likewise they reduce glare and control light intensity. Given the hypothesis that trees reduce visible radiation significantly reaching ...

In oasis cities urban forestation shades the lower level facades of buildings. It is thus crucial to analyze the distributional patterns of sun radiation produced by trees on facades. Nevertheless, the complexity of the ...

A large variety of transparent materials is available for uses in buildings façades and all glazing properties must be considered in their choice. Such a selection should be a careful process of evaluation and weighing ...

The objective of this research is focused on developing concepts to produce a kinetic facade based on parameterization, which optimizes the luminous comfort of an architectural space with poor interior lighting; this, ...

Overheating, high cooling energy demand and glare are recurrent problems in office buildings in Santiago. It is necessary to know the influence of different architectural strategies in energy demands to meet thermal comfort ...

Daylight is often mentioned as an important factor to be considered in architectural projects. However, it is mostly taken into consideration as regards its physical features (sun path and availability) whose metrics do ...

El trabajo compara el rendimiento lumínico de distintas soluciones de protecciones solares exteriores utilizadas en refuncionalización y nuevo diseño de edificios con fachadas integrales vidriadas orientadas hacia el Ecuador ...