Thermal and Luminous Comfort in Classrooms: A computer method to evaluate different solar control devices and its operating logics

Frequently physical requirements related to luminous and thermal comfort conflict the ones with the others in the classrooms. In facts physical quantities values influencing comfort are sensibly variable from point to point, principally as function of the distance from windows. This work proposes a computer method aimed to forecast and to evaluate the effects of a movable solar control device and its control logic, with regard both to comfort conditions and to energy demand. A case-study, consisting in a classrooms of a school located in Verona (in the North of Italy), has been examined, and different solar control strategies has been compared