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2. Shading on South, West and East 3. East and west wind with precooling
Special points of interest: 1. Design of shading as per orientation 2. Innovative shading devices 3. Landscape design to allow cooling of hot winds 4. North south orientation
in a way that it gets advantage of sun for day time lighting at the same time the direct radiation is minimized. The building designed according to solar path remains comparatively cool in summers and warm in winters, and hence requires less energy to operate as compared to the conventional buildings.
How is it beneficial?
The layout and design of building are important for an energy efficient building. Following points describe the same:
Hyderabad is primarily hot and dry and the buildings, primarily the commercial buildings are heavily reliant on air-conditioning to meet thermal comfort. Appropriate layout that allows ideally oriented building receives comparatively less radiations, which directly results in lower heat gains and thus lower air-conditioning loads. Layouts of neighborhood that allow for ideal orientation ,in combination with other low cost strategies such as shading , landscape features such as water bodies, plantations ,can offset a lot of need for mechanical space conditioning and reduce demand for conventional energy.
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Fig 2 Orientation as per solar geometry and
wind direction Sunlight and wind are the free resources on site, which can be effectively used in order to make the interior spaces comfortable.
Layout and design are also crucial for daylighting that can offset need for artificial lights during daytime. Layout and design are important also from wind flow point of view. The wind speeds can be effectively utilized in naturally ventilating and cooling the building in a well laid and designed building.
Submittals
Layout and design compliance documentation:
The Set-back for North faade is must for all the buildings, and this faade should have openings. West and South faade must be shaded with building elements. Building blocks must have space for free natural wind movement. The plots/buildings should be laid in a way that the longer faade face North or South. Arrange spaces with respect to favorable orientations, e.g. place buffer spaces like toilet, service areas, and staircases along the west/east faade of building; spaces with the requirement for natural lighting to be on the north
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Submittal requirement:
1. 2. 3. Site plan with building outlines and clear distinction of the North-side set back. Local wind-map showing the wind direction in site plan. Drawing showing effective utilization of wind movement in the building.
Guidance Notes
Documentation of the faade treatment with photographs and drawings.
Designing a Layout as per Solar Geometry and Wind Directions
The layout of a building or a group of buildings must be integrated with the landscape design to respond to solar geometry and wind directions. The best orientation in Hyderabad is presented in figure 2. The longer facades of the building should face North-South cardinal directions and the shorter facades should be facing East-West directions. In Hyderabad the average solar radiation intensity falling on different facades facing various cardinal directions is as given below
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Fig. 3 Longer Facade Facing North-South
Average Solar radiation Intensity on various facades of a building Facade Orientation North Facing South Facing East Facing West Facing Solar Intensity (W/m2) 100 600 600 400 Month of maximum solar intensity May December Mar-April Mar-April
From the above given table it is clear that a building having longer North South facades will receive lesser amount of solar radiations. Also East and West facades receive maximum solar intensity during the summers while on south the maximum radiation falls in the month of December.
VSA and HSA can be calculated from the sun path diagram. Nowadays various softwares are available to calculate these angles on various surfaces. Ecotect is one of them.
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It is clear from the figure that when HSA and VSA are the depth of the shading devices will be lesser.
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Designer should select the most critical time when these angles make a combination which requires maximum shading. The Critical HSA and VSA for different cardinal directions which needs to be cut down are as given below
Solar Angles to be cut-down on various cardinal directions Cardinal Directions North East West South North-East (NE) North-West (NW) South-East (SE) South-West (SW) HSA (Horizontal Solar Angle) in Degrees 33.7 -11.8 9.5 -30.5 33.2 -35.5 -56.8 54.5 VSA (Vertical Solar Angle) in Degree 84 38.1 57.7 64.1 42.5 62.5 54.5 69.6
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Angles have been measured from the normal to the fenestration Angles measured anti-clockwise from the normal to the fenestration have been shown with negative sign for HSA (horizontal solar angle)
Various kinds of shading devices can be opted to cut down the direct solar radiations. To cut-down the horizontal solar angle one can provide single or multiple vertical fins where as in case of vertical solar angle one can provide single or multiple horizontal projections. For designing the shading device one can use the drafting softwares such as Auto-CAD, Sketch-up etc or can use the formula given below to find the depth and spacing.
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Formula to calculate depth and spacing for shading device to cut-down VSA Depth of shading device = Spacing between the shading device X {tan (90 -VSA)} The critical VSA values can be read from the table given above and either of the depth or spacing can be chosen by he designer to calculate the other unknown parameter. Formula to calculate depth and spacing for shading device to cut-down HSA Depth of vertical fins = Spacing between the vertical fins X {tan (90 -HSA)} The critical HSA values can be read from the table given above and either of the depth or spacing can be chosen by he designer to calculate the other unknown parameter. Example showing how to design shading designs To cut-down VSA Design a shading device to cut down the vertical sun angle of 60 0 for a window of 1300mm height. The shading device can be designed in two ways for this particular case. 1. Single horizontal projection: A single horizontal projection of 693mm depth can be provided as shown in the figure to cut down the 600 VSA.
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2. Two horizontal projections: Two horizontal projections each of 346mm depth which are 600mm apart from each other can be provided as shown in the figure to cut down the require VSA of 600. To cut-down HSA Design a shading device to cut down the horizontal sun angle of 300 for a window of 3000mm width. As the HSA is quite low, the option of providing single vertical fin will not be a good option. Instead one can design the shading design in form of multiple vertical fins. To cut down HSA of 300 five numbers of vertical fins having depth of 866mm and at a spacing of 500mm can be provided as shown in the figure.
References
1. Results of analysis in Ecotect and Weather tool software ICAEN (Institut catala d Energia), 2004, Building Design Manual, Chapter 6 -Passive Solar Design, TERI Press, New Delhi
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