Chronolux plugin sketch up to optimize the placement of vegetation

Pipin Alfian; Beta Paramita

doi:10.32698//tech1315163

Chronolux plugin sketch up to optimize the placement of vegetation

Pipin Alfian^(1*), Beta Paramita⁽²⁾

(1) Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
(2) Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract

This study describes the software functions of Chronolux Sketch Up plug in. This software aims to simulate insolation at some point. Insolation areas and sky view factor (SVF) which is integrated as where the initial phase of a design process at an analysis site. Chronolux is proven as the simple tool to help a designer to know the grade of insolation, which then decided the vegetation spot based on the level insolation. Based on this experiment, it is known that north part area is an area with maximum insolation within 10 hours, and west part area is an area with the minimum insolation within 7 hours. From the SVF calculation, it is found that the north part with 77.28% later can reduce the SVF until 42.69% by optimize the placement and determine the characteristic of vegetation. After the placement of vegetation, the solar insolation then is able to reduce from the average 6h5m into 4h35m . The vegetation then is proven as an important aspect to reduce the insolation.

Keywords

Chronolux, SVF, vegetation optimazation

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Proceeding:

International Conference on Education, Science and Technology

Publisher:

Redwhite Press

ISSN (Print):

2685-5984

ISSN (Electronic):

2685-5933

Published:

2019