TY - GEN
T1 - A Parametric Tool for Outdoor Shade Design
T2 - 20th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures, CAAD Futures 2023
AU - Aleksandrowicz, Or
AU - Ozery, Ezra
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - To date, there is a lack of orderly and data-based methods for quantifying, evaluating, and benchmarking street-level outdoor shade in streets and urban public spaces. The lack of such methods impedes the effective design of walkable and liveable outdoors in locations where shading is essential for significantly mitigating outdoor heat stress. To address this shortcoming, we have developed Kikayon, a relatively simple parametric tool that allows planners and designers to easily compare the effect of design alternatives on outdoor shade provision based on building geometry and tree canopy morphologies while taking into account the variance of exposure to solar radiation at different times. The tool calculates several shade and tree indices, some we have originally developed, for each street design, giving users quick and straightforward feedback and enabling them to quantitatively compare design alternatives. Our tool is implemented as a Grasshopper code that harnesses several components of the Ladybug Tools suite.
AB - To date, there is a lack of orderly and data-based methods for quantifying, evaluating, and benchmarking street-level outdoor shade in streets and urban public spaces. The lack of such methods impedes the effective design of walkable and liveable outdoors in locations where shading is essential for significantly mitigating outdoor heat stress. To address this shortcoming, we have developed Kikayon, a relatively simple parametric tool that allows planners and designers to easily compare the effect of design alternatives on outdoor shade provision based on building geometry and tree canopy morphologies while taking into account the variance of exposure to solar radiation at different times. The tool calculates several shade and tree indices, some we have originally developed, for each street design, giving users quick and straightforward feedback and enabling them to quantitatively compare design alternatives. Our tool is implemented as a Grasshopper code that harnesses several components of the Ladybug Tools suite.
KW - Heat Stress
KW - Outdoor Shade
KW - Parametric Urban Design
KW - Shade Maps
KW - Urban Microclimate
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85169036366&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-37189-9_20
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-37189-9_20
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AN - SCOPUS:85169036366
SN - 9783031371882
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 302
EP - 316
BT - Computer-Aided Architectural Design. INTERCONNECTIONS
A2 - Turrin, Michela
A2 - Andriotis, Charalampos
A2 - Rafiee, Azarakhsh
Y2 - 5 July 2023 through 7 July 2023
ER -