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    Horizontal light shelves on the southern facade of the building shade strip windows from direct sunlight, allowing ventilation and light into interior spaces. Openable sash windows in vertical series throughout the building further improve airflow and the escape of hot air. Constraints on horizontal projections are addressed through the use of light shelves projecting outside the windows to maximize natural lighting throughout interior spaces.

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    Horizontal light shelves on the southern facade of the building shade strip windows from direct sunlight, allowing ventilation and light into interior spaces. Openable sash windows in vertical series throughout the building further improve airflow and the escape of hot air. Constraints on horizontal projections are addressed through the use of light shelves projecting outside the windows to maximize natural lighting throughout interior spaces.

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    Green Acres Case Study

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    Devyani Ramamoorthy
    Horizontal light shelves on the southern facade of the building shade strip windows from direct sunlight, allowing ventilation and light into interior spaces. Openable sash windows in vertical series throughout the building further improve airflow and the escape of hot air. Constraints on horizontal projections are addressed through the use of light shelves projecting outside the windows to maximize natural lighting throughout interior spaces.

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    Wind direction

    during the four


    most humid
    months of the year
    Deep recesses allow from ventilation
    from cool pockets of shade

    Openable sash windows in vertical series


    High windows for hot air to escape

    Openable sash windows in vertical series


    Lighting

    Constraint: a
    bye-law that Design decision:
    permitted only “Light shelves”
    750mm deep projecting outside
    horizontal windows, running
    projections free in strips
    of (floor space
    index)

    Horizontal light
    shelves on the
    southern façade
    shade strip
    windows from the
    harsh southern
    sun
    Vertical
    Staircases
    louvres on
    as lit
    the east and
    volumes
    west faces
    Maximising the
    efficiency of light
    (natural and artificial)

    • “Sharing” of incoming light


    • Fewer partitions, fewer blockages to light

    Classrooms as smaller cuboids within larger volumes

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