Sustainable Daylighting Design in Southern European Regions

Abstract

Traditional daylighting approaches and the metrics used for their quantification (such as the daylight factor), have limitations that do not take into account the dynamic characteristics of daylight and in particular its energy-related effects and the influence of the occupants of the buildings in the final daylighting performance. This paper proposes an integrated method for the characterization and realistic prediction of the dynamic performance of daylighting based on the daylighting-hours indicator concept (Href) and on a daylighting-related behavioral model.