Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
EURASIA JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, cilt.13, sa.12, ss.7637-7649, 2017 (SSCI)
The aim of this study is to find optimum angles for the orientation and the shading for buildings in the warm climatic regions. This study was conducted at Cyprus, which has Mediterranean climate. In the literature, many studies exist which consider only optimum orientation or only optimum shading. To this end, this study instead focuses on both optimum orientation and optimum shading and evaluates the results through experimental simulations. This research findings could be used to improve architecture students' skills about optimum orientation and optimum shading for buildings such as school buildings. Further, this study discusses the effective use of sunlight. Different building orientations were tested with a cube building model using the Ecotect simulation software. As a result, the minimum energy consumption area of the total annual energy use (heating and cooling) shows the optimum building orientation. Furthermore, the profile angle, which has the total minimum cooling consumption for the optimum building orientation, demonstrates the optimum shading element angle. In order to find the optimum orientation angle of the cube model, the building was oriented by incrementing 10 degrees azimuth angle (without shading elements) in the clockwise direction beginning from the north. As a result of the simulation of the cube model, the minimum energy consumption area was found at the azimuth 170 degrees, azimuth 180 degrees and azimuth 190 degrees. For these orientations, simulations were conducted by incrementing a 1 degrees azimuth angle between 170 degrees and 190 degrees. Based on the results of the optimum building orientation, the horizontal shading element was added to the window by incrementing the profile angle from 0 degrees to 40 degrees using 10 degrees step size. Then, an analysis was conducted by increasing 1 degrees angle for the estimated profile angles that show the minimum energy consumption. The simulation results for the cube model indicates that the optimum profile angle for the horizontal shading element is between 20 degrees and 30 degrees. As a result, the optimum building orientation for the cube model was determined as azimuth 171 degrees (9 degrees towards east from the south) and 22 degrees for the optimum profile angle.