Potential indicators of neighbourhood solar access in urban planning

SND-ID: 2022-137

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Agnieszka Czachura - Lund University, Division of Energy and Building Design orcid

Description

The data contains results of a study that analysed solar access metrics for urban planning purposes. The purpose was to evaluate metric correlations to find suitable simple indicators of solar performance that can be applied to assess urban designs.

The data contains inputs for creating the neighbourhood design iterations and metrics as outputs of simulations. Neighbourhood models were created using Rhino 7 and Grasshopper, while metrics were simulated using Grasshopper and Ladybug Tools.

The metrics are described in the review article: Czachura, A., Kanters, J., Gentile, N., & Wall, M. (2022). Solar Performance Metrics in Urban Planning : A Review and Taxonomy. In Buildings (No. 393; Vol. 12, Issue 4). https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12040393

The model setup is described in the article: Czachura, Agnieszka, Niko Gentile, Jouri Kanters, and Maria Wall. 2022. "Identifying Potential Indicators of Neighbourhood Solar Access in Urban Planning" Buildings 12, no. 10: 1575. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101575

Language

English

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Lund University

Responsible department/unit

Division of Energy and Building Design

Contributor(s)

Maria Wall - Lund University, Division of Energy and Building Design

Jouri Kanters - Lund University, Division of Energy and Building Design orcid

Niko Gentile - Lund University, Division of Energy and Building Design orcid

Funding

  • Funding agency: Swedish Energy Agency rorId
  • Funding agency's reference number: 49518-1
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period
Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden, Germany

Geographic description: The data concerns two locations, for which weather files were applied to simulate metrics: Stockholm (Sweden) and Franfurt (Germany). Case studies originate from Malmö (Sweden), but were simulated with the Frankfurt weather.

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Czachura, Agnieszka, Niko Gentile, Jouri Kanters, and Maria Wall. 2022. "Identifying Potential Indicators of Neighbourhood Solar Access in Urban Planning" Buildings 12, no. 10: 1575. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101575
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101575

Czachura, A., Kanters, J., Gentile, N., & Wall, M. (2022). Solar Performance Metrics in Urban Planning : A Review and Taxonomy. In Buildings (No. 393; Vol. 12, Issue 4). https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12040393
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12040393

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Dataset
Solar access metrics simulated for urban design iterations and case studies

Description

The excel file comprises of five data sheets: two containing data descriptions and three containing research data. The results are solar access metrics, which were used in a correlation study and other statistical analyses to determine their suitability for urban planning assessment purposes.

Sheet 1 'metric_descriptions': Description of metrics

Sheet 2 'headings': Description of headings

Sheet 3 'Iterations_Stockholm': Neighbourhood models generated in an iterative process using geometrical

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Citation

Agnieszka Czachura. Lund University (2022). Solar access metrics simulated for urban design iterations and case studies. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1. https://doi.org/10.5878/jf63-ay82

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Agnieszka Czachura - Lund University, Division of Energy and Building Design orcid

Published: 2022-10-03