The study concluded that the plan typology has an obvious impact on achieving daylight performance in the multi-storey residential buildings. The results demonstrated that the point typology is the best type of plans among all cases in terms of providing optimal daylight performance, while the double-loaded plan typology was the worst. The results were analyzed and compared with daylight standards levels. Three types of simulation were run on each project: Illuminance, LEED, and Daylight Autonomy to achieve results. Five multi-storey residential buildings were selected as cases of study. A simulation method has been used with an academic licensed Revit Architecture 2019 with plugged insight daylight analysis as one of Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools for achieving this goal. The endeavour of this research is to determine the optimal plan typology in providing sufficient daylight levels. It aims to find out the impact of building typology on daylighting quality and quantity. This study assesses the daylight performance in the multi-storey residential buildings (apartments) in Erbil city. ĭaylight represents one of the crucial factors that affect directly on the building performance and its occupants. This is an open access article under the CC BY license ( ).Ĭitation: Mohammed Nadhim Majeed, Faris Ali Mustafa, Husein Ali Husein, Impact of Building Typology on Daylight Optimization Using Building Information Modeling: Apartments in Erbil City as a Case Study, Journal of Daylighting 6 (2019) 187-201. History: Received 1 November 2019 | Revised 20 December 2019 | Accepted 21 December 2019 | Published online 24 December 2019Ĭopyright: © 2019 The Author(s). Mohammed Nadhim Majeed, Faris Ali Mustafa, * Husein Ali Huseinĭepartment of Architecture, College of Engineering, Salahaddin University – Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq doi: 10.15627/jd.2019.17 Impact of Building Typology on Daylight Optimization Using Building Information Modeling: Apartments in Erbil City as a Case Study.

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