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Fernández-Expósito, M.; Moreno, D.; Esquivias, P.M. (2015, 25 de Mayo). Influence of Daylight in Urban Design as a tool towards a more sustainable city.

CONGRESO: Book of Abstracts of the II International Congress on Sustainable Construction and Eco-Efficient Solutions

PÁGINAS: 1091-1112

CIUDAD: Sevilla (España)

ABSTRACT:
Issues of sunlight and daylighting condition for design of the buildings has had little research and few practical applications among other things, because of the absence of national or local minimum requirements. If we focus on the urban scale, awareness and the number of papers addressing this subject is almost inexistent.

Among the principles of bioclimatic urban, some authors like José Fariña Tojo or José Manuel Naredo determine planning criteria which can be drawn basics that directly affect the urban design. First, it is essential structural roads that respond to sunlight requirements for getting optimal orientations for the maximum utilization of natural light both for the street and for buildings annexed. Besides, this road has to incorporate an appropriate vegetation to the requirements of humidity and environmental evaporation (trying to minimize thermal loads), getting all together, a urban morphology with well oriented facades and an appropriate proportion of courtyards.

The paper will analyze how most relevant urban parameters influence the sunlight inside the building, assessing this influence from the point of view of sustainability. We consider parameters of traditional urban, such as height, width of the street or orientation, such as vegetation and pavement or materiality of the facades. As a case study, we chose a city with warm weather and between 30-40 ° latitude as Sevilla.