15.07.2015   EuroSun2008-4

Solarch.-Vision

Solarch.-Vision is a perspective, plan or etc. diagram which shows the situation of the building skin under the kind/unkind faces of the sun. It brings a brand new vision to the architects, urban designers and landscape architects to discover the advantage/disadvantage of decisions about kind/unkind faces of the sun in each location through the design process.

By selecting a city from the list or entering the available data of a location such as latitude, elevation, turbidity, monthly average of min. and max. temperatures, the architect could define the building site. As the codes of Solarch.-Vision(by author #1) has been developed on MAXScript(the built-in scripting language for 3ds Max and Autodesk VIZ.), it is easy for the architect to use 3dsMax or any other CAD software to model everything needed. Next the architect would set up the date and time definition of analysis, and by selecting the cameras it is possible to observe an extraordinary solar diagram.

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Fig. 7. Yearly Solarch.-Vision of building complex in Tabas(left), Shiraz(middle) and Hamedan(right)

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Fig. 8. The situation palette from red(in undesirable shade/shine) to blue (in desirable shade/shine)

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Fig. 9. Solarch.-Vision in summer(left) and winter(right)

10th October, Lisbon — Portugal *

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Sky Radius (km):

1150000000.0

Sky Origin:

Fig. 10. Solarch.-Vision rollouts in Autodesk 3ds Max

1. Conclusion

The method and software described in this article will help architects, urban designers and landscape architects of the world to design better with the sun in the early next years; but still there are many problems that a proper architecture must solve.

References

[1] Samimi Mojtaba, “Thesis: From the Sun to the Architect”, Library of the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, 2007.

[2] Samimi Mojtaba, Parvizsedghy Laya, Adib Morteza, “A New Approach for Solar Analysis of Buildings”, SERP, WORLDCOMP’08, Nevada, 2008.

[3] Remund J, Kunz S., “METEONORM”, Bern METEOTEST, Fabrikstrasse, 2003.

[4] Tahbaz Mansore, “The Sun and Building Orientation”, Library of the School of Architecture, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, 1983.

[5] Olgyay Victor, Olgyay Aledar, “Solar Control & Shading Devices”, Princeton University Press,

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