Es_5 a_Lab 6_ windows solar radiation _via di monteverde_ Martina Pieri

For this exercise the request is to analyze the solar radiation of my apartment but first there are some images below that explains the rooms that correspond to the windows/French doors. First I remember you that I live in the basement floor of a building placed in via di monteverde, rome. Beside i have a garden that is under the street suface. 

Fig.1 Map of the building. The garden is the light blue shape.

fig.2 view of the building

Then I took some picture with the camera tool.

Fig.3 View C (see the first map)

fig.4 View A. The French door on the left is the passage from the kitchen to the garden and the window on the right belongs to the bathroom.

Fig.5 View B. The two horizontal windows belong to an l-shape hallway that connects the living room (on the left) with my bedroom (on the right). My bedroom also have the window                 that can be seen on the left. 

The room of my parents is on the N-w side (D view) and it will be seen by the following images.

For the analysis I had some problems like some values didn't shown so many images are in the wireframe way. I take all the four seasons with the multi day mode and sunrise to sunset time. First I analyzed the shadows. than the default solar radiation and at the end the solar radiation with each value. 

SPRING

 

Fig.6 Shadows At 10:15 a.m

Fig.7 Shadows at 1:15 p.m.

Fig.8 Shadows at 4:15 p.m.

Concl: the entire apartment recive the more quantity of light after the first part of the morning. the room with the more disadvantages is my parent's one cause it receive tless light.

Fig.9 KW/m2 values of kitchen and bathroom window. The difference between them is that the kitchen doesn't receive so muche radiation cause it has another building in front of it. The           bathroom instead it's located in front of the perimeter of the building (non so se si è capito ma praticamente il bagno si trova a filo con il perimetro dell'edificio che sta di fronte) so               it's not so covered like the door. Another thing is that the door has a platform roof so the values are reduced           to the minimum. 

Fig.10-11 The window of the hallway is toward north so the values are low and the the same is for the French door of my parent's bedroom. It's not wise to place a room in this very own                     place because the room cuold become very cold expecially in winter!

SUMMER

Fig 12. Shadows at 11:15 a.m.

Fig.13 Shadows at 1:15 p.m.

Fig.14 Shadows at 4:15 p.m.

Concl: From the morning to 4:00/5:00 p.m is the best moment of the day in spite of my parent's room that has the same problem of spring.

Fig.15 Solar radiation of the kitchen's door, the bathroom and hallway windows.

Fig.16 Solar radiation of the 2nd hallway windows (towards south west)

Fig.17 SOlar radiation of the French door towards North west

Fig.18 kW/m2 values of the K door and wc window

Fig.19 Values of the hallway's and my bedroom's windows. It can be noticed the difference between the North and South west windows of the hallway. 

FALL

Fig.20 11:15 a.m.

Fig.21 1:15 p.m.

Fig.22 4:15 p.m.

Concl:  fall's morning enlight a little bit more than summer one. But it begins to get darker ealier so the apartment start to use the radiators.

Fig.23 General Solar radiation. The colours are more definite and there are less shades.

Fig.24 In the low part of the kitchen's door the values are more high but if we compare them with the bathroom ones the're very low. The reason is the same explained before; the window               is more exposed to the light.

Fig.25 North bedroom. This room remains the most cool of the apartment.

Fig.26 Here we can see a high value in the south west window (1.07) but the north west value remain very low

WINTER

Fig.27 10:15 a.m.

Fig.28 12:15 a.m

Fig.29 1:15 p.m.

Fig.30 4:15 p.m.

Concl: The light is weak since the morning and also it's low-rise and set earlier. In fact at 4:15 p.m. this side of the building is completely shaded. The kitchen is enlighted only 'til lunch                    time. The problem of the basement (and it counts for all the seasons) is that it's under the street surface and it's surrounded by other buildings and that's a situtation that we can                often find in cities at high inhabitants density. So It's better to live at the higher floors or simply it's better to move the rooms more used towards the south west side and closer to              the street so they don't have the shadow of the building in front of the apartment.

Fig.31 Solar radiation. Everything turns purple or blue except the bathroom window.

Fig.32 SOlar radiation of the south west window of the hallway. N.B.: We can notice that that's the case in which this window doesn't receive the tha similar radiation of the bathroom. In               the other simulation  they have the same colour and similar values. 

Fig.33 Radiation values on the kitchen door and bathroom window. The bathroom window remains warmer but the values are very low.

Fig.34 Radiation values on the hallway and my bedroom windows. The values are uniform.