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Solar Shading Facades

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Urbanization has lead to growth of humans. Migration to urban area from rural areas has crowded the cities. Also need to increase business has led to increase in high rise office buildings. It has become a trend to install curtain wall on almost office building. These glass facades traps heat inside; thus increasing the load on HVAC systems altogether. In hotter regions in summer it is really to achieve thermal comfort with air conditioning. Thus using solar shading facade might help reduce the heat due to radiation of sun. These facades would prevent direct sun rays from falling on the glass that would  heat the interior. 
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​Ketki Prashant Bapat

Ketki was born in Mumbai, India. She completed her Bachelors in Architecture from University of Mumbai, India in 2019. She did a thesis project on sports complex in her 5th year of Bachelors. Currently she is studying in first semester of MS in Architecture and building sciences and expected graduation would be December 2020. She is interested in green building technology and passive technique of air conditioning.
  • Projects
    • Environment Box
    • Passive Refrigeration
    • Water Cooling
    • Fog Catching
    • Roof Geometries
    • Optimal Insulation
    • Cooler Windcatcher
    • Green Machine
    • Mitigating Humidity
    • Convective Air Flow
    • Styrene Reuse
    • Thermal Reflection
    • ETFE Rigidification
    • Phase Change Materials
    • Polar Reflection
    • Cavity Depth Variation
    • Vapor Permeability
    • Algae Facade
    • Moisture Buffering
    • Engineered Geometries
    • Recycled Desiccant Materials
    • Living Wall
    • Solar Shading Facades
    • SHADESin.reACTION
    • Low-Fab Dehumidification
    • Breathing Wall
    • Urban Heat Island
    • Acoustical Design
    • Latent Heat of PCM's
    • Insulative Qualities of Air
  • About
  • Lectures
    • Building Science Basics I
    • Building Science Basics II
    • Research & Literature Review
    • Scales of Fabrication
    • Electronics
    • Methodology
    • Graphical Excellence
    • Moving Graphics
  • Assignments
    • 1: Research Proposal
    • 2: Prototype
    • 3: Data
    • 4: Design Proposal
    • Presentation & Paper
  • Workshops
    • Thermal Scavenger Hunt
    • Balance Point Game
    • Advanced Shop Training
    • Basic Electronics
    • Advanced Electronics
    • Excel & Illustrator
    • Data Visualization
    • Videos
    • Animations
  • Syllabus
  • Resources