• UDITA
• NIHARIKA
• VAISHALI

In a building, if the spaces are well lit with the daylight, it features good designing skill in that building. Buildings with optimum daylight create a positive working ambience and also a healthy and relieving space to work in. Artificial lighting account for a large share of the total energy consumption which could be substantially reduced with the help of the provision of ambient day lighting in building. Visual comfort could be created with the help of proper day lighting along with avoiding glare and providing ambient lighting. Glare could be avoided in the buildings either by providing glare resistant glass, but that will result in reduced daylight too, thus another way of reducing glare is the proper designing of the sunshades in the openings. Sunshades could be fixed or movable, since the movable ones couldn’t be installed everywhere therefore fixed shades are more common. While designing sunshades for a city like ‘Dehradun’ which experiences hot summers and chilled winters careful designing for sunshades is required such that it avoids the sun throughout the day in summers and allows the sun in winters without creating visual discomfort. Therefore in this paper we will be designing the sunshades for ’Dehradun’ in consideration with the climate and visual comfort.

Daylight, Sunshades, Visual comfort, Glare

"SHADING AND NATURAL LIGHTING DESIGN FOR COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS IN COMPOSITE CLIMATE (DEHRADUN)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.321-331, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807204.pdf

"SHADING AND NATURAL LIGHTING DESIGN FOR COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS IN COMPOSITE CLIMATE (DEHRADUN)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp321-331, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807204.pdf