Daylight is a valuable natural resource that has been related to space quality and sustainable development. With the increasing density of urban population and physical environment, current manual-based daylight analysis and assessment have limited capabilities for dense neighbourhood evaluation and fail to effectively quantify natural daylight in residential zones. This paper proposes a parametric-based modelling system that perform year-round daylight access in dense neighbourhoods. Neighbourhood samples of Beijing work as study cases. Methods include data integration and parametric modelling. Geographic and climate information, building geometries, and daylight performance are computed with the parametric-based modelling system. Experiments at various residential building cluster layouts demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed system. Results indicate that parametric technology can provide positive innovation for daylight performance evaluation and dense neighbourhood sustainability assessment.
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