A SET OF TWO HELIODONS FOR THE ARCHITECTS OFFICE
The idea to utilize heliodons as a means of solar simulation in architecture began with those examples in Britain in the 1930s. Through the decades, it has been a vital tool in the architectural design, particularly, in the ages of energy crisis that energy performance acquired a substantial priority in the agenda of architectural design. A building will become a truly sustainable building, only if it is designed in an optimized manner with the sun. Heliodons are physical tools that will greatly assist the architects to quickly and effectively compare various options of the design at the very early stages of conception and design. Furthermore the heliodons can serve as easily understandable tools to convey solar design ideas of buildings to building developers, owners and clients, much in the same way as physical models would do. Well developed building models using heliodons to start with, will help further amplify the meaning and use of the results of subsequently performed computation analysis of solar calculations, because heliodons will help put the design into the high grade region, and computations will tell how good the design is within the high grade region in quantitative terms, yet based on certain assumptions for computation. Suitable and affordable heliodons that architects can use daily in their design office will greatly enable lots of buildings to be designed well with the sun. In the pursuits of these heliodons, the research team has produced a set of two affordable heliodons, which are convenient to use in architects office. This paper discussed the operation procedures of these 2 heliodons, to be put into the conference room of nominally 5.5m×3m×2.8m high inside an architects office. Innovations have been achieved in accommodating lamps that simulate the sun in a relatively small space commonly exists in architects offices.
K. P. CHEUNG PATRICK C. L. LUK S. T. WONG M. F. LEUNG S. L. CHUNG
Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Research and Development Unit, Chu Hai College of Higher Education, Hong Kong Architectural Studies, Division of Arts & Humanities, HKU School of Professional and Continuing Educ Department of Engineering, Tun Mun Campus, The Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, Hong Kon
国际会议
广州
英文
329-335
2006-12-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）