Impact of urban design on daylight availability

PLEA 2006 - 23rd International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Leder, Solange M ^a   Pereira, Fernando O R ^a   Claro, Anderson ^a   Ramos, Marcela G ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Daylight availability; Urban environment

Indexed keywords

DAYLIGHT AVAILABILITY; INPUT DATAS; MASTER PLAN; PERFORMANCE SIMULATION; REAL SITUATION; SCENARIOS GENERATION; SOUTHERN BRAZIL; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN LAND USE;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LAND USE; URBAN PLANNING;

DAYLIGHT SIMULATION;

EID: 84865748403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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