Shading Analysis
Location: Via Enrico Cernuschi 9, ROME, IT.
Once started Vasari and opened a new file, you can change misure’s unite(“Project unite” command) under the Manage menu and set the location by clicking on “Location” in the Analyze tools.
Then you have to choice the area you want to study by typing the city name and, once found the exact location, clicking on “Import site image”
After you have imported the area, you can start modelling using the “Creat Mass” command and start drawing the perimeters of the building and extruding them. Once you finished to create and modified the volumes needed, you can click on the “Finish Mass” command.
Now, in order to study the shadings, we’ve to show the Sun path, activating it by clicking on the sun icon. Once the sun is switched on, we can activate the shading by clicking on the respective icon. We can now set the hour and the day of the sun so we can see the differents shadings generated by the daily light in different times.
Setting views
In order to get the needed views you have to click on the floor plan 2D site view in the Project browser menu; then by clicking on the Camera command you can place it as you wish, orienting the sight and choosing the deepness as requested.
After having placed the camera you can set the eye and target elevation by clicking on corresponding command in properties menu of the corrent view.
Chosen date: 21 March 2015
9:00 AM
12:00 AM
3:00 PM
6:00 PM
OBSERVATIONS
The lighting proposed by Vasari reflected quite accurately the real shadows projected on the N/E (A Facade) and N/W (B Facade) facades by the sorrounding buildings. We can see that this two facades don’t get sunlight untill 3 pm, when the N/W is almost totally illuminated(excluding the projections from the balconies). At 6 pm the facade is hit mostly on his upper portion. As we could expect for a facade standing northwards, the A facade don’t get light directly all day long, but it gets it only undirectly by the opposite building’s front in morning hours ( 09-12 h).
