Research Catalog

Title

Discomfort glare from daylight in classrooms / Raquel José Abreu Viera Viula

Author

Abreu Viera Viula, Raquel José

Publication

Delft : BK Books, 2022

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Additional Authors

Technische Universiteit Delft, degree granting institution.

Description

468 pages : illustrations, charts, plans; 24 cm

Summary

Provision of daylight without the risk of discomfort glare is one of the aspects that determine the quality of the classroom environment. Although discomfort glare from daylight is under investigation for a long time, a knowledge gap concerning the applicability of the existing metrics to the spatial conditions of the classroom is identified in this work. An investigation on the applicability of existing metrics to the prediction of discomfort glare in classrooms has been carried out based on two experimental studies. The analysis shows that the existing metrics have poor predictive ability particularly in the sitting positions away from the window light source. A study is then carried out to investigate how can more appropriate predictive models of discomfort glare be developed, based on three different methods. A modification of the Daylight Glare Probability (DGP) equation produced a significantly better discomfort glare model than any of the metrics that have been studied in this work. Following this finding, a new metric, DGPlog(Ev)new, is proposed. The produced metric suggests that discomfort glare in the classroom is better identified based on a range of equations for different sitting positions or that new variables that account for sitting position need to be included in a predictive model of discomfort glare for these spaces. A set of architectural design guidelines towards a discomfort glare free classroom is then proposed, based on the newly produced model and on the collected data

Series Statement

A+BE Architecture and the Built Environment

Uniform Title

A+BE Architecture and the Built Environment

Subject

• School buildings > Lighting
• Daylight
• Classrooms > Design
• Glare

Genre/Form

Academic theses

Thesis (note)

• Doctoral thesis, Delft University of Technology, 2022

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-464)

ISBN

• 9789463665919
• 9463665919

OCLC

• on1344293185
• 1344293185
• SCSB-14341639

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries