Daylight Control Performance of Biomimetic Facades: Biomimetic Facade Proposals for an Office Building
Abstract
Today, the development of technology has enabled people to develop different perspectives on the environment, nature and objects. As a result, the biomimicry approach, defined as the search for nature-oriented solutions to environmental problems with new design ideas, has become widespread. While examining the biomimicry approach, it is not possible to ignore daylight, which is one of the natural environmental elements. The fact that the building envelope is the first layer that encounters daylight in buildings requires that daylight control parameters be taken into account in its design. In this context, if controlling daylight entering the space is a design problem, this design problem can be solved with the biomimicry approach. In the study, two different biomimetic facade designs were proposed for a glass-fronted office building in order to measure the daylight control performance of biomimetic facades. After the facade proposals were modeled in Grasshopper, their daylight simulations were performed in ClimateStudio. The results obtained were evaluated with the comparison method, and it was observed that the proposed biomimetic facades, unlike the current glass facade, can provide daylight control.
Keywords
Biomimicry, daylight, daylight control
Ethical Statement
This article was produced from the “Daylight Control in Biomimetic Facades”, Master’s Thesis completed in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Institute of Science and Technology, in the Department of Architecture.
The article complies with national and international research and publication ethics. Ethics committee approval was not required for the study.
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