Research on the Forms of Ceilings for Enhancing Daylighting of Side Windows of Classrooms
WANG Mengrui
Abstract：Large numbers of studies illustrated that daylighting is conducive to adolescents’ health. But the illumination in many classrooms is insufficient and uneven in China. The paper introduces some researches on newly daylighting design casesof the USA in the recent years, as well as the cases of that different forms of ceilings can enhance the intensity of illumination and create a good lighting environment for classrooms. The paper summarizes five common forms of ceilings, and simulates different types of ceiling by RADIANCE. The paper tries to find out the influence of ceiling for the daylighting classrooms. The research offers a new direction for our daylighting design of classrooms.
Keywords：ceilingsdaylightingclassroomschool buildings
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：8( 105-112 )