Category

Region

K.S.T.

K.S.T.

Category
Daylight in buildings - Region 4: Asia and Oceania

Students
Jo Un Kim (University of Seoul, Seoul)
Tae Young Yeo (University of Seoul, Seoul)
Dong Hwan Jeong (Hanyang University, Seoul)

School
University of Seoul

Country
Korea, Republic of

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Bringing daylight into a working space is important for many reasons. However, in order to ensure a proper brightness and avoid excessive light of the working environement, we often use additional shading system such as blind, exterior louver then use the artificial light. Therefore we spend most of the time in a space surrounded by the shades. Especially for those buildings with long east and west sides, fixed vertical louver or blind is applied. And they block the view and natural light even when excessive sun is not there. We felt the need for an exterior shading system that moves with the position of the sun