Luis Fernandes
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
An inversion of part of the daylighting design process can be
useful in shortening design time and maximizing the number of options
that can be considered in the early design stage. A three-step method
has been developed to perform such an inversion for the selection of
fenestration systems according to lighting performance goals. The first
step of the method poses an inverse lighting problem: given the desired
lighting performance goals in a space, what are the characteristics of
the light source that will come closest to achieving those goals? This
talk will briefly present the complete method and, in more detail, a
solution to the inverse lighting problem by using the Radiance lighting
simulation software.