Design Approaches and Measuring Methods of Self-shading Buildings: Comprehensive Analyses

Growing attention has been paid to different building shading strategies, especially self-shading techniques. Hence, researchers have explored various building design approaches for optimizing and evaluating self-shading performance. These approaches provide enormous potential for designers to expre...

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Main Authors: Sara Hamed, Shawkat Elkady, Amr Youssef
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Language:Arabic
Published: Assiut University, Faculty of Engineering 2025-09-01
Series:JES: Journal of Engineering Sciences
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Online Access:https://jesaun.journals.ekb.eg/article_432325_ec85184553d9c7af7b1e6cfd9b8febac.pdf
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description Growing attention has been paid to different building shading strategies, especially self-shading techniques. Hence, researchers have explored various building design approaches for optimizing and evaluating self-shading performance. These approaches provide enormous potential for designers to express their creativity and adapt their designs to challenging climatic conditions. This paper introduces a comprehensive analysis of the most common self-shading design approaches and their studied variables, along with their associated evaluation metrics for assessing self-shading effects. Consequently, this study focuses on the analyses of solar radiation metrics and their simulation tools for evaluating self-shading performance. As a result, the findings show the capabilities and limitations of current self-shading design approaches, and their main design variables. Then, shading calculation methods and simulation tools for solar radiation metrics have been classified and evaluated. In addition, the future directions for different applications in this field have been conducted, highlighting potential avenues for further exploration and optimization.
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spelling doaj-art-1ee5ae8716e24d5ab567ae00515e363e2025-08-20T03:33:14ZaraAssiut University, Faculty of EngineeringJES: Journal of Engineering Sciences1687-05302356-85502025-09-0153558160610.21608/jesaun.2025.372396.1466432325Design Approaches and Measuring Methods of Self-shading Buildings: Comprehensive AnalysesSara Hamed0Shawkat Elkady1Amr Youssef2Department of Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.Department of Architectural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, EgyptDepartment of Architectural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, EgyptGrowing attention has been paid to different building shading strategies, especially self-shading techniques. Hence, researchers have explored various building design approaches for optimizing and evaluating self-shading performance. These approaches provide enormous potential for designers to express their creativity and adapt their designs to challenging climatic conditions. This paper introduces a comprehensive analysis of the most common self-shading design approaches and their studied variables, along with their associated evaluation metrics for assessing self-shading effects. Consequently, this study focuses on the analyses of solar radiation metrics and their simulation tools for evaluating self-shading performance. As a result, the findings show the capabilities and limitations of current self-shading design approaches, and their main design variables. Then, shading calculation methods and simulation tools for solar radiation metrics have been classified and evaluated. In addition, the future directions for different applications in this field have been conducted, highlighting potential avenues for further exploration and optimization.https://jesaun.journals.ekb.eg/article_432325_ec85184553d9c7af7b1e6cfd9b8febac.pdfincident solar radiationbuilding envelopefacade patternspassive designsimulation
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Design Approaches and Measuring Methods of Self-shading Buildings: Comprehensive Analyses
JES: Journal of Engineering Sciences
incident solar radiation
building envelope
facade patterns
passive design
simulation
title Design Approaches and Measuring Methods of Self-shading Buildings: Comprehensive Analyses
title_full Design Approaches and Measuring Methods of Self-shading Buildings: Comprehensive Analyses
title_fullStr Design Approaches and Measuring Methods of Self-shading Buildings: Comprehensive Analyses
title_full_unstemmed Design Approaches and Measuring Methods of Self-shading Buildings: Comprehensive Analyses
title_short Design Approaches and Measuring Methods of Self-shading Buildings: Comprehensive Analyses
title_sort design approaches and measuring methods of self shading buildings comprehensive analyses
topic incident solar radiation
building envelope
facade patterns
passive design
simulation
url https://jesaun.journals.ekb.eg/article_432325_ec85184553d9c7af7b1e6cfd9b8febac.pdf
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