Sunlight Penetration Extent Study on Two Early Modern High Rise Buildings in Kuala Lumpur
Yasser Arab1*, Ahmad Sanusi Hassan2, Bushra Qanaa3
- School of Housing, Building & Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia
Published in The Second NZAAR International Event Series on Natural and Built Environment, Cities, Sustainability and Advanced Engineering, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 8 December 2016, pages 74 to 80. New Zealand Academy of Applied Research. ISSN 2463-5979 (online), 2463-5960 (print).
Abstract
The study aims to analyze and compare the sunlight penetration extent for two buildings in Kuala Lumpur with early modern architectural style. The early modern style was popular for residential building in Malaysia during the 1950s to 1970s, and it was the solution for the government in order to provide the maximum number of units to people who moved to live in the major cities at that time. Two early modern residential apartment buildings in Kuala Lumpur were selected to be the case studies of this research, the buildings namely Sri Kelantan and Sri Perak. In order to get the sunlight penetration extent SunTool software were used to conduct the simulation hourly from 8:00 am until 7:00 pm. The findings show that the early modern style was able to provide good shading performance, the corridor and the façade design were able to prevent the unnecessary sunlight to penetrate into the house.
Keywords: Sunlight Penetration; High-rise Building; Early Modern Style; SunTool software; Kuala Lumpur
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