SITE DESIGN

Site Designer

This web app extends my dynamic daylighting tool to bring shading, solar radiation and view analysis to the level of an entire site rather than just a single room. It uses the same framework and infrastructure as the daylight tool, but with some more interesting snapping, editing and model generation functions. This means that it uses the same block-optimised ray-tracing routines, so the geometry is still limited to axially-aligned rectilinear blocks. However, I have added an experimental constructive solid geometry (CSG) model to automatically merge intersecting blocks into more complex shapes so that the intersecting edges are not shown. Another distinguishing feature is the ability to add multiple analysis grids, both flat and volumetric, and to automatically fit them to selected surfaces or volumes.