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Visual comfort without borders: Extending daylight glare prediction to dim daylit environments

Avoiding discomfort glare is one of the critical aspects of maintaining visual comfort, which significantly influences occupants' overall satisfaction with their indoor environment. Discomfort glare prediction models have been developed for various lightin ...

EPFL2022

Impact of Brightness on Glare Perception when Using Shading Fabrics

Access to daylight and views out are usually recognized as beneficial to occupant comfort at the workplace. Simultaneously, discomfort glare due to direct sunlight is a known source of occupant dissatisfaction. Shading fabrics with low openness factor have ...

PLEA2022

Subjective assessment of visual comfort in a daylit workplace with an electrochromic glazed façade

Jan Wienold, Caroline Karmann, Sneha Jain

Electrochromic (EC) glazing is increasingly employed in building façades to achieve better visual comfort for the occupants. EC glazing can modulate the light entering through the façade by varying the solar transmittance of the glass and therefore can wor ...

2021

Subjective assessment of visual comfort in a daylit workplace with an electrochromic glazed facade

Jan Wienold, Caroline Karmann

Electrochromic (EC) glazing is increasingly employed in building facades to achieve better visual comfort for the occupants. EC glazing can modulate the light entering through the facade by varying the solar transmittance of the glass and therefore can wor ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Behind electrochromic glazing: Assessing user's perception of glare from the sun in a controlled environment

Jan Wienold, Caroline Karmann, Sneha Jain

The adaptable transmittance of electrochromic glazing allows to control the solar radiation entering buildings, yet the level of transmittance needed to protect from glare is still an unanswered question. To bridge this gap, this study evaluates the level ...

2021

Does glazing color influence our perception of discomfort glare from daylight?

Sneha Jain

Spectrum and correlated colour temperature of light are shown to influence human visual comfort. Previous research conducted with electric light, mainly in the context of vehicular headlamps, have demonstrated that coloured LEDs induce more discomfort glar ...

2021

Life cycle efficiency of solar shading systems: a proof-of-concept

Marilyne Andersen, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Nazanin Rezaei Oghazi, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

Solar control strategies are essential for the glare control and decreasing cooling needs or overheating risks (in the absence of active cooling system), however, they come with their own embodied energy. With the carbon neutrality objective looking at the ...

2021

Transparent nanomeshes for smart windows

Andreas Schueler, Jérémy Jacques Antonin Fleury

Conventional selective low-e coatings for windows of residential buildings have a cut-off frequency in the near infrared spectral region NIR, limiting the resulting solar heat gain coefficient to g ≈ 0.5. By structuring the coating into nanomeshes, the sel ...

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE2021

Strong coloration of nanoporous tungsten oxides by in-vacuo lithiation for all-solid-state electrochromic devices

Andreas Schueler, Anna Krammer, Maxime Lagier, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard, Luc Burnier

Electrochromic windows allow for an improved management of solar heat gains in buildings and enhanced visual comfort of building users. All-solid-state electrochromic devices can be especially durable. During their fabrication lithium has to be inserted, p ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

Modeling specular transmission of complex fenestration systems with data-driven BSDFs

Jan Wienold

A Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function (BSDF) describes how light from each incident direction is scattered (reflected and transmitted) by a simple or composite surface, such as a window shade. Compact, tabular BSDFs may be derived via interpolat ...

2021

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