Solar design can take many different forms across disciplines with different methodologies
and goals, ranging from acquiring architectural visual effects to assessing illumination for …

The behavior of daylight inside built settings, though complex, is well understood; and over
past years, designers and researchers investigated different tools and methodologies to …

Human circadian, neuroendocrine, and neurobehavioral responses to light are mediated
primarily by melanopsin-containing intrinsically-photosensitive retinal ganglion cells …

Daylighting as a research topic situates itself at the interface between psycho-physiological
and environmental factors, bringing together questions relevant to architectural design and …

Light has been shown to have a non-visual impact on the biological aspects of human
health, particularly on circadian rhythms. Building windows are a potential means of …

Unlike artificial light sources, which can be calibrated to meet a desired luminous effect
regardless of latitude, climate, or time of day, daylight is a dynamic light source, which …

Light affects many aspects of human physiology, through the non-image-forming (NIF)
pathway. To account for this pathway, lighting design simulation tools need to combine …

Designing spaces that are able to balance illumination, glare and solar gains over a year is
a real challenge, yet a problem faced every day by building designers. To assist them, a full …

In this conceptual article we propose a framework for describing the experience of delightful
daylighting in Nordic homes and a method to correlate it with an existing quantitative …

The conventional approach to predicting interior illumination and visual discomfort in
buildings is to run a ray tracing simulation with high accuracy settings, wait while the …