Daylighting strategies are one of the most
common aspects of architecture, but their proper use
was ignored by the designers during the implementation
of the educational buildings which led to the lack of
distribution of Well daylit within the deep spaces. They
find a lot of spaces have many windows and the absence
of any external obstacles to entering the daylighting
inside the space. But it has found some areas still dark,
generate extensive heat gain and discomfort glare
problems and this is not accepted in IES which ensures
visual comfort, is one of the key design goals that
architects and lighting designers seek; Due to the
availability of cheap electricity at the time, the main
dependence on space lighting was achieved by using the
non-regulated electricity which led to the rapid increase
in For this purpose, especially in deep spaces which
asymmetric dimensional designed this paper aims to
study the effect activating the use of top lighting
strategies in educational establishments, especially the
drawing rooms, which needs on the uniformity and
availability of daylight and for long periods, to maintain
the visual comfort of the application and rationalize the
use of electricity using the techniques of the daylighting
for the regular distribution of lighting. This
investigation conducted by Generating the 3d models
and analyzing the daylighting performance conducted
through a parametric simulation approach. This
approach included two software programs which are
Grasshopper and Diva for Rhino. This Simulation
consisted of two phases. The first phase investigated by
achieved spatial daylight autonomy by use sawtooth
systems on daylighting performance in four
intermediate orientations. The second phase
investigated using different shading techniques on
enhancing daylighting performance and treatment of
the annual sunlight exposure. Simulations were
conducted using the weather data file of Alexandria,
Egypt. The performance assessment was based on two
metrics: IES approved method -Spatial Daylight
Autonomy (sda) and Annual Sunlight Exposure (ASE).
Results show that the northeast and northwest
orientation for sawtooth opening with shading systems
in Alexandria reached the required daylighting
performance and achieved the acceptance criteria of the
assessment metrics according to the daylighting
requirements of IES.
Keywords : Educational Buildings; Draw Studios; Diva- For-Rhino Simulation; Grasshopper; Daylighting; Sawtooth; Skylight; Deep Space; Annual Sunlight Exposure; Spatial Daylight Autonomy.