Daylighting Design
The next project to help us gain knowledge for the task at hand was designing and building a model of an energy efficient house using daylighting techniques. During this project we learned about current techniques including light shelves, clerestory windows, skylights, and other designs. We also calculated the amount of energy consumption of the house when using the daylighting techniques and by making educated guesses on how many lights would be necessary in the house. We calculated our house to say a total energy of about 3.39 kilowatts from its calculated use of 10.32 kilowatts. This means our home would only use 6.93 kilowatts.
The model of our energy efficient home