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Solar design of buildings for architects: Review of solar design tools

2012

The International Energy Agency Solar Heating and Cooling Programme (IEA SHC) Task 41: Solar Energy and Architecture, gathered researchers and practicing architects from 14 countries in the three year project whose aim was to identify the obstacles architects are facing when incorporating solar design in their projects, to provide resources for overcoming these barriers and to help improving architects' communication with other stakeholders in the design of solar buildings. This report is a result of research done under Subtask B: Tools and methods for solar design, of the Task 41. The previous two stages of the Subtask B revealed that there is a broad variety of digital tools that architects are using today in their practices for solar design. The existing tools greatly differ in their complexity, the tasks that they perform, required input data and the output information. This possibly creates additional level of perplexity for those architects who need to choose appropriate tool in order to implement solar strategies at the early design phase, as the choice of tool incur cost, require time for mastering and affect the design workflow in the architectural practice. IEA SHC Task 41: Solar Energy and Architecture T.41.B.3-Solar Design of Buildings for Architects: Review of Solar Design Tools 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTRIBUTORS TO THE REPORT (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) .

Solar Architecture and Energy Engineering

Journal of Green Building, 2010

The modern built environment has been developed in a context of readily-available, low-cost energy from highly concentrated fossil fuels. Today's global energy landscape has dramatically changed; energy costs have become significant in the operation of buildings, and the sector uses a major portion of the global resources of fossil fuels. In recent years a major focus of green building development in North America and internationally has been on setting up sustainable energy practices for the built environment. This focus has advanced energy conservation and efficiency measures for buildings; on-site clean energy generation is now positioned as a critical next step in meeting increasing energy demands while enhancing the functionality and comfort of buildings. “Solar Architecture” as a green building concept addresses sustainable energy practices and the needs of the three major tiers of the built environment: community planning, existing buildings, and new construction. This ar...

Solar Energy in Architecture: the Case of Facade Collectors

2015

The use of solar energy in architecture becomes more and more attractive nowadays. It offers great benefits such as: fossil fuel reduction, less CO 2 emission that labels the architectural goods as sustainable and eco-objects. Particularly, the usage of solar thermal systems in buildings has a big potential. Façade solar thermal collectors show double benefits in new architectural goods: integrated functional elements that fit the architectural appearance very well and at the same time those elements use a high fraction of solar energy for thermal energy needs of the building. In this work, the new model of a façade windows-like collectors is described. Namely, it is an ideal module that could fit or build-it in the south façade of the building. It could be used for residential, manufacturing or office building. With facade types of collectors, the architectural appearance of the buildings is not destroyed and at the same time the build-in elements are functional: they participate to a great portion of total energy needs of the building.

IJERT-Solar Energy in Architecture: the Case of Facade Collectors

International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), 2015

https://www.ijert.org/solar-energy-in-architecture-the-case-of-facade-collectors https://www.ijert.org/research/solar-energy-in-architecture-the-case-of-facade-collectors-IJERTV4IS010002.pdf The use of solar energy in architecture becomes more and more attractive nowadays. It offers great benefits such as: fossil fuel reduction, less CO 2 emission that labels the architectural goods as sustainable and eco-objects. Particularly, the usage of solar thermal systems in buildings has a big potential. Façade solar thermal collectors show double benefits in new architectural goods: integrated functional elements that fit the architectural appearance very well and at the same time those elements use a high fraction of solar energy for thermal energy needs of the building. In this work, the new model of a façade windows-like collectors is described. Namely, it is an ideal module that could fit or build-it in the south façade of the building. It could be used for residential, manufacturing or office building. With facade types of collectors, the architectural appearance of the buildings is not destroyed and at the same time the build-in elements are functional: they participate to a great portion of total energy needs of the building.

Solar energy in architecture: Novel facade collectors

Tehnika, 2014

The use of solar energy in architecture becomes more and more attractive nowadays. It offers great benefits such as: fossil fuel reduction, less CO 2 emission that labels the architectural goods as ecobuildings. Particularly, the use of solar thermal systems in building integration has a big potential. Façade solar thermal collectors show double benefits in new architectural goods: integrated functional elements that fit the architectural appearance very well and at the same time they use a high fraction of solar energy for thermal energy needs of the building. This is a sustainable way of use of solar energy and consequently decrease the CO 2 impact to the environment. In this work, the new model of a façade windows-like collectors and their advantages are described. Namely, it is an ideal module to build-it in the south façade of the building; it could be residential, manufacturing or office building. With facade types of collectors, the architectural appearance of the buildings is not destroyed and at the same time the build-in elements are functional: they participate to a great portion of total energy needs of the building.

An Architectural Understanding of Solar Power

2003

Calls for readily effective solar design tools assume that an accessible bridge between the information needs of architects and the information provided by building physics has long been estab- lished. A general overview of the available means for supporting the building design process, however, shows that computer-based design guidance is still largely based on the working concerns of engineers, rather than architects. The paper delineates an analysis of these distinctly different classes of working concerns. In summary, design decision scenarios that can be termed architectural tend to work "from the inside out," that is, from human-oriented objectives towards the development of building geometry and passive building behavior (structural and thermal). The implementation of solar radiation models, on the other hand, is commonly limited to the context of thermal models for simulation analysis. Such calcula- tion models inherently focus on climatic boundary conditions, typi...

A Roadmap for the Integration of Active Solar Systems into Buildings

Applied Sciences, 2019

This paper aims to simplify the interdisciplinary design process that will be used as a design tool for the viable integration of active solar energy systems into buildings, i.e., Building-Integrated Solar Thermal Systems-BISTSs; Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Systems-BIPVSs, through the creation of a roadmap. The research also aims supplement the work of researchers who have dealt with the creation of design tools that aim to optimise a specific aspect of a building design, or their geometric forms, in order to shape energy-efficient and sustainable architectural solutions. More specifically, a prescriptive design strategy is derived from the proposed design tool. This is based on five design steps, each of which is analysed and which lead to the creation of a comprehensive design tool for siting buildings so as to optimise the integration of solar systems. The originality of this tool is based on the fact that it makes an important step in the standardisation of these studies.

A review of solar technologies for buildings

Solar energy is receiving attention in applying technologies and energy systems in recent years. Solar technologies for buildings relying on both passive and active systems are developed. Passive solar refers to those that absorb, store and distribute the sun’s energy without relying on mechanical devices, while active systems are those where heat is transferred mechanically by the use of a working fluid such as air or a fluid that is typically water, or water based. Some recent innovations in solar technologies for buildings are also presented. It is seen that, today solar architecture is undergoing a true revolution through the integration of renewable technologies into the fabric of buildings. Such systems are designed for heating, ventilation, thermal isolation, shading, electricity generation and lighting of building