Due to their specific position and shape, attic apartments in apartment buildings differ from conventional apartments. Their rooms are illuminated by daylight, which passes indoors also through the skylights whose surface affects both the daylighting of the rooms and the energy balance of the building. In the thesis we determined the minimum surfaces of transparent parts of the building envelope in the selected attic apartment, which was sufficient according to legislation and standard FprEN 17037 recommended values for daylight lighting in three different locations. Analyses for daylighting were performed with the help of Velux Daylight Visualizer 3 software. The average window-to-floor area ratio (WFR) in Ljubljana and Madrid was 28 % and in London 30 %, which is more than legal requirements according to Codes on minimum technical requirements for construction of residential buildings and apartments, where the minimum WFR for living spaces was 20 %. In the next step we calculated the energy balance of the apartment with simulation program EnergyPlus and determined the ratio between the energy balance of the window and the required energy for heating or cooling, taking into account the shading/not shading of the windows. With this we evaluated the influence of solar radiation on the energy balance of apartment at the specific surface of the transparent part of the building envelope. The energy balance of the window is defined as the sum of solar gains and heat flow through the window and it represented between 75 and 90 % of the required cooling energy at all three locations in June. Taking into account the shading, the maximum required energy was reduced from 62 to 77 %, which indicates high impact of the shades. The influence of the energy balance of windows on the necessary energy for heating was during heating season in London and Ljubljana mostly negative. The positive effect was seen only in the spring and autumn months when the power of solar radiation is greater and the outside temperatures are higher. In the last part of the assignment, we compared the attic apartment with an equivalent flat roof apartment. The attic apartment is better in terms of energy balance in all three locations compared to the reference, which is especially evident when using the blinds. The advantage of the attic apartment is visible at the same brightness of the equivalent rooms and the same size of the windows.
|