Design practice integration of a daylight analysis tool
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Master's Thesis
Master's Thesis
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Building performance tools are an important part of building design and are used
to verify functional requirements. For instance, daylight analysis verifies that
the access to natural light in the interior space is adequate. Daylight is important
for our circadian rhythm, affects our alertness and mood and is of increasing
importance as we spend more time indoors. In current practice, forementional
analyses of the building are mainly used in retrospect by engineers, after the
conceptual design phase of architects.
If the building does not fulfill the functional requirements this can lead to
expensive changes where critical design ideas are lost. A consequence of rule
of thumb approach by architects is lost opportunities during the design phase. It
is therefore motivated to have sustainability tools usable for architects in early
phase design. However, even though the use of tools is motivated and exist, they
are not integrated into the practice to a considerable extent. There is a missing
link between the developed tools and the architects, where many of the tools
are externally developed and the research regarding these tools is driven by
computational performance improvements.
To instead focus on the process of tool uptake in architectural practice, this
thesis evaluates different educational approaches experimentally to teach and
implement an internally developed daylight tool within one architecture practice.
The three educational approaches which have been explored experimentally
are a presentation for the office, a course for the users, and one-to-one teaching
sessions. Each approach is directed to different roles at the office with different
objectives and will be evaluated through surveys. In connection to this an
interview study has been done to better understand the needs of the architect in
relationship to the digital tool.
It was found that the different roles at the practice expressed different needs for
the tool, where the lack of focus on roles beyond the tool user might explain the
lack of uptake of developed tools. The different educational approaches were
well-received with new users of the tool, but more approaches were requested,
such as a manual for the tool and a presentation focusing on sales for the seniors.
A framework explaining the need of the tool has been organised based on the
work with this integration, where the need for the tool is divided into four
categories, the need for users, functionality, relevance, and credibility.
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Sustainability, Digital Tools, Daylight, Practice based research, Digital development, Practical implementation approaches, Building performance analysis, architecural practice