This web site provides a series of step-by-step tutorials (design workflows) for analyzing the performance of a building as far as climate, daylight, glare and and energy use are concerned. To access the instructions simply left-click onto the images. The focus user groups for this material are architectural students and practicing designers. The development of these instructions was supported through a grant from the Harvard Provost Office with additional support from Kalwall and the GSD Department of Architecture.
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Climate Analysis Understanding Weather Files and Visualizing Data Using Autodesk Ecotect Weather Tool and Climate Consultant (Oct 2010). |
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Daylighting Rules of Thumb A rule-of-thumb based design sequence to implement diffuse daylighting during schematic design and design development (Mar 2009). |
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Daylighting Analysis in Rhino/Radiance/Daysim A series of video tutorials on how to carry out various daylighting and solar radiation studies (Oct 2010). |
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Daylighting Analysis in Ecotect/Radiance/Daysim How to carry out a daylight factor calculation in Ecotect, a basic glare evaluation in Radiance and a climate-based daylight simulation in Daysim (Nov 2006). |
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Software Interoperability How to prepare a Rhino model for export to Ecotect (Mar 2009). |
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Glare Analysis Three tutorials on High Dynamic Range Imagery and glare evaluations using Photosphere and Evalglare: I.Definitions, II.Photosphere, III.Evalglare (Jul 2010). |
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Direct Shading Analysis Using Autodesk Ecotect for Exterior Qualitative
Solar Analysis (Apr 2010). |
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Thermal Analysis An introduction to thermal simulations using DesignBuilder/EnergyPlus for modeling the annual energy use of a building for heating, cooling and lighting (Sep 2009). |
