Balcony Design for Wellbeing

Date: 2022-2023   |   Supervisor: Alstan Jakubiec  |   Professional: The Design for Climate and Comfort Lab

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This project is focused on quality of life for inhabitants in urban high density dwellings, specifically evaluating circadian lighting, daylighting, view quality, and gardening potential in balconies.

I developed a grasshopper script of a set of 9 balconies with 12 parameters including dimensions of unit and balcony, type of balcony, distribution of balconies, glazing materials, orientation, and window-to-wall ratio. The parameters
were narrowed down to generate daylighting, view, and circadian lighting simulations with a total of 31,034 simulations. For the daylighting simulations, Honeybee components were integrated, Climate Studio for view analysis, and LARK 2.0 componets for the circadian lighting simulations.