The satisfactory admission of daylighting and insolation in buildings has become difficult because of the growth of urban areas, and of the speculative real estate market. This is mainly due to urban densification determined by the intense use of plots and the construction of tall buildings. With the approval of Statute of City, new instruments for urban control have been gradually introduced in the masterplans of Brazilian cities, including the need to undertake neighbourhood impact studies for some projects. However, there are no standardized and consistent methods to analyse some of issues involved in those studies, such as daylighting and insolation. The aim of this research work is to develop a method to analyse the impact of new buildings, considering minimal requirements of insolation and daylighting, by using computational simulation.
Neighbourhood impact; Daylighting; Insolation