Publications by Raphaël Compagnon

Ray tracing study for non-imaging daylight collectors

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Friedrich Linhart, Stephen Wittkopf, Raphaël Compagnon, Lars Oliver Grobe

This paper presents a novel method to study how well non-imaging daylight collectors pipe diffuse daylight into long horizontal funnels for illuminating deep buildings. Forward ray tracing is used to derive luminous intensity distributions curves (LIDC) of ...

2010

La Ville Radieuse by Le Corbusier, once again a case study

Marylène Montavon, Raphaël Compagnon

La Ville Radieuse, ‘The Contemporary City for Three Million Inhabitants’ proposed by Le Corbusier for central Paris is a myth in the history of contemporary town planning. The proposal, according to Le Corbusier, could increase the urban capacity and at th ...

2006

Solurban Project, Solar Utilisation Potential of Urban Sites

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Darren Robinson, Marylène Montavon, Raphaël Compagnon

Besides providing a more efficient energy use, a large scale application of solar energy technologies in the urban context will be required in the upcoming decades to achieve a drastic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the biosphere. Three different ...

2005

Simulations numériques de systèmes d'éclairage naturel à pénétration latérale

Raphaël Compagnon

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