[Bldg-sim] Solar Shade Simulation

[Cramer Silkworth]

Omer,
 
Google SketchUp. It's free, easy to use, and has a reasonably good
sun/shadow rendering that allows you to see the effects as you change
the date and time. You can get fancier with something like Ecotect and
its sun path diagrams, but for a task like this I'd just go with
SketchUp.
 
-Cramer
 

J. Cramer Silkworth

Transsolar Climate Engineering

Technical consulting for energy efficiency and environmental quality in
buildings.

145 Hudson Street

Suite 402

New York, NY 10013

Office: 212-219-2255

silkworth at transsolar.com


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From: Omer Moltay [mailto:omoltay at mimtarch.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 8:35 AM
To: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: [Bldg-sim] Solar Shade Simulation



Dear List Members,
 
I would appreciate suggestions on the following project:
 
We are working on a multi-block residential housing in a topography will
hills and valleys (max inclination around 10 degrees). We would like to
place the buildings in this topography so that even the first floors
receive sunlight for at least a few hours on 21 December. We are looking
for software to help us with locating and orientating the buildings so
that individual buildings do not block each other from receiving
irradiation in this manner.
 
Kind regards.
 
Omer Moltay, LEED AP
 


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