These strategies can be applied and adapted to high-rise buildings by using direct solar gain, indirect solar gain, isolated solar gain, thermal storage mass and passive cooling systems. On the other hand, considering active solar technologies can also add extra potential by providing part of the building necessary energy demands.
Finally, high-rise buildings have great potential to gain solar radiations because of their vast facades. Analyzing case studies illustrate that applying solar passive strategies in high-rise buildings have a meaningful effect on reducing the total annual cooling and heating energy demand.
Therefore, by considering the use of solar passive strategies and active technologies as an alternative in high-rise buildings, this study tries to fill some of the current gaps as much as possible and its proposed fundamental message is changing architects’ and construction builders’ view in dealing with the subject. 1.1. Research methodology
For instance, to meet the building heating demand, three paths are available: 1. direct use of solar heat generated through a thermal collector, 2. conversion of solar electricity to heat in an electric-resistance heater, and 3. running a heat pump using the solar electricity. The same three paths are available for Domestic Hot Water (DHW). Fig. 2.
Only if building heights are limited to 5–10 floors does the available solar energy, and thus the permitted EUI, reach 50–75 kWh/m 2 a. Therefore, we recommend that policymakers not require high-rise buildings to be net-zero energy, unless they are prepared to limit building heights to 5–10 floors. 1. Introduction
Conversely, the best-performing residential and commercial buildings have EUIs of 50–75 kWh/m 2 a. Only if building heights are limited to 5–10 floors does the available solar energy, and thus the permitted EUI, reach 50–75 kWh/m 2 a.
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