2023 Sustainable Buildings Challenge
Award: 1st Place | Team: Javeriya Hasan
This competition consisted of developing a sustainable technical strategy to improve the current design of a mid-rise multi-unit residential building to be constructed in the Milton Education Village.
My contribution to the was to develop a strategy focused on enhancing indoor environmental quality. For this, I performed daylighting simulations using Rhino and Climate Studio to better inform how
daylighting could be improved.
The simulation results for Spatial Daylight Autonomy (sDA) showed that units with windows only facing North do not receive equal amount of sunlight compared to units facing West, East, and South. Results for Annual Sunlight Exposure (ASE) indicated that the score is above the recommended amount of 10%.
Initial Simulation Results
Proposed Design Recommendations
Shift orientation of the building 10 degrees northeast
to allow more sunlight into the north-facing units.
Implement climate specific shades in selected windows on
the East, West, and South façade.
Simulation Results After Design Recommendations
