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Simple sunlight protection strategies cannot prevent glare, despite maximizing daylight utilization.
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Managing light becomes more challenging when several elements are considered simultaneously, e.g. minimizing heat gain, while maximizing daylight, yet considering glare.
Over the years, this system of maximizing daylight hours was also touted as a way to conserve resources, particularly during times of war.
Elongated clerestory windows maximize daylight while keeping heat gain (this is Texas, remember) to a minimum.
The glass catwalks were designed by Whitney Warren to maximize daylight entering the terminal, and were the primary means of ventilation before the days of air-conditioning.
The exposed wood ceilings on the 13-foot-high upper floors also contribute to an airy loftlike feel, with exposed steel cross braces and 10-foot-high windows that maximize daylight.
The objective was to maximize daylight uniformity ratios.
This paper purposes on shading devices as natural daylight utilization component for building design.
It enabled a simplified hourly evaluation of the daylight utilization with reasonable accuracy and calculation speed and, because it was coupled to a simplified thermal model, evaluation of the impact of daylight utilization on hourly temperatures, heating and cooling demand.
Namely, it proved that a mini-scale model could also assist in natural daylight utilization and building energy-conservation design.
Higher daylight utilization was observed in offices with easy-to-access controls, which implies less frequent use of electric lights and less energy consumption accordingly.
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