The daylit area - Correlating architectural student assessments with current and emerging daylight availability metrics

Building and Environment

Volumn 50, Issue , 2012, Pages 155-164

  Reinhart, Christoph F ^a   Weissman, Daniel A ^a  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Daylight simulations; Daylighting metrics; Daysim; LEED; Occupant evaluations; Radiance

Indexed keywords

BUILDING SCIENCE; CAMBRIDGE; DATA POINTS; DAYLIGHT AVAILABILITY; DAYSIM; GRADUATE-LEVEL; ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA; INTUITIVE UNDERSTANDING; MEASUREMENT PROTOCOL; OCCUPANT EVALUATIONS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; RADIANCE; STUDENT ASSESSMENT; TEACHING EXERCISE; USEFUL DAYLIGHT ILLUMINANCE;

ARCHITECTURE; DAYLIGHTING; ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING; LOW ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

DAYLIGHT SIMULATION;

RADIANCE; STUDENT; TEACHING;

EID: 82055168923     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.10.024     Document Type: Article

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