Recomendaciones para el diseño de iluminación natural en aulas académicas a partir de simulaciones dinámicas para la ciudad de Bogotá

Abstract

The teaching-learning processes in classrooms are mainly promoted by architectural and structural conditions such as natural lighting, which must be balanced in order not to cause visual fatigue to the ones who use it. That research was intended to formulate suggestions for the design of new and existing classrooms that fit the illumination comfort conditions in the two typologies chosen (regular and irregular), which are represented in the city of Bogotá with cold climate. In order to fulfill that, an analysis of rules, indicators and standards on conditions of natural lighting in classrooms, architectural and building characterization was performed, as well as the climatic zone and its features, reaching 72 models through the mixture of variables and constants to evaluate, through dynamic simulations, the Daylight Autonomy (DA) and Useful Daylight Illuminance (UDI) indexes and identify the best scenarios, based on BIM models and interoperability with Design Builder as an important phase for optimizing time and getting better results. After the simulations and its respective classifications, they resulted in, for regular classroom, a high performance from the 11% of models, whereas the irregular classroom gave rise to a medium performance of 50 and 63% respectively. To conclude, the best models of each typology were classified, in order to present the respective suggestions on the models that fit the lighting comfort.