Ankita Deka

Material Ecology and Environmental Performance

Climate Analysis of an Office Building

The course focused on teaching the fundamentals of the application of thermal and visual properties of materials to building envelope design to achieve optimised building and environmental performance. The final group project was a culmination of the learnings through the semester and aimed to apply simulations through tools and data to study an office building in Ahmedabad.


Report Content

Introduction to the climate and sun shading angles

Iterations of window shading device (South)

Iterations of window shading device (West)

Minimizing temperature swing

Comparison chart of temperature swings

Daylighting analysis without shading device

Daylighting analysis with shading device

Operational Carbon with Net-Zero potential

Embodied carbon with three shading device options