Architectural and Environment
CASE STUDY: SHADING & LIGHTING ANALYSIS
This case study consists of two parts which are shading and lighting, me and my groupmates divided the tasks which I did shading part with another partner. In the beginning, me and my partner planned to use my room as the researched space. So, I have done the measurement and drawing of my room. However, after doing some analysis, we found out that my room is quite small and we couldn’t identify much issues or explore more passive strategy. Therefore, we decided to change the selected space to my partner’s living room. It has bigger area and much more apparent issues which we can determine clearly. I have determined the issues using the data collected by my partner and find effective solution for each of the issues. We also learned how to do some calculation regarding the HSA, VSA and solar heat gain. We came out with 2 presentation boards showing the result of our case study.
REFLECTION
I would like to thanks my tutor, Dr.Suja who gave us correction on our board during every tutorial patiently. I have learned to collect those data using some recommended apps and also to draw the structure and sunpath diagram using software such as SketchUp and Photoshop which I never tried it before. Although learning those 3D drawing software is hard in the first step, I found that it actually makes our boards looks neater and more organized. This is also a good approach for me to pick up the computer drawing skill and to prepare myself for the next few sems. Besides, I also learnt that there are many passive strategy to cope with the issues, however determining the most effective solution that suites the condition of selected site is quite important. This is due to every space has different factors such as the climate, ground level, materials etc.