Hi,
I want to simulate the shading effects of lamellae on the facade of a building. How can I model them without using pv panels or rooms? For example, using only surfaces. I also want to attribute to this surface a specific material in order to understand the effects of colour and of material's properties.
What parameter in Vista could I use to understand the effects of the shading? I cannot use the solar gain because the building behind the lamellae is not glazed.
Thank you.
shading devices effects on buildings
Re: shading devices effects on buildings
@m_stellab, you are currently posting this in the "Suggestions" section of the forum, which is more for general feedback. You would probably get a better response if you posted in the normal forum.
Regardless, the way I would try to approach this is by building a shade to represent the lamellae, altering between the materials you are interested in (or no materials at all). You can use the copy command to help you to build large arrays quickly (ie make two layers/rows, copy them, then copy all four, then all eight, etc and you will build it a an exponential pace.
You mention using only surfaces: IES and most energy modeling platforms operate using zones, or 3D spaces. It's not possible to model a surface exactly. I typically get around this by just making the shading surface as thin as possible (e.g. 0.001m).
For looking at the results, it depends on your intention. You can pull some info for the surface, but I suspect some SunCast analysis, similar to what you might do to gauge PV performance, would be better than doing an Apache simulation. Alternatively if you are interested in the effect on internal loads via conduction, you could pull that from VistaPro.
Regardless, the way I would try to approach this is by building a shade to represent the lamellae, altering between the materials you are interested in (or no materials at all). You can use the copy command to help you to build large arrays quickly (ie make two layers/rows, copy them, then copy all four, then all eight, etc and you will build it a an exponential pace.
You mention using only surfaces: IES and most energy modeling platforms operate using zones, or 3D spaces. It's not possible to model a surface exactly. I typically get around this by just making the shading surface as thin as possible (e.g. 0.001m).
For looking at the results, it depends on your intention. You can pull some info for the surface, but I suspect some SunCast analysis, similar to what you might do to gauge PV performance, would be better than doing an Apache simulation. Alternatively if you are interested in the effect on internal loads via conduction, you could pull that from VistaPro.