A Lighting Proposal for A Library Project in Terms of Energy Efficiency

Abstract

This paper aims to achieve visual comfort conditions with less energy consumption at a university library. In this regard, a lighting design project is proposed for BUU faculty of architecture library which is an additional unit to the existing building in the pre-design phase and planning to be implemented. In this scope, artificial lighting results and daylighting availability of the library space is analyzed with a lighting simulation tool. Accordingly, solar gains were examined and the annual energy loads were calculated depending on a variety of façade shading configurations via a building energy simulation program.