Window Protection From Solar - Radiations

Mumbai : The present era in building design is with a climate marked by a growing desire on the part of air-conditioning engineers, architects, town-planners and the people in general to provide such living and working conditions inside buildings as are conducive to human health, comfort and general well-being and therefore deserves a more reasonable consideration at town-planning stage.

Where the considerable emphasis should be on thoughtfulness of mutual shadowing of buildings to ensure as far as possible that no unit/building block or group of units offers permanent shading for sun-light and clearance for daylight only which otherwise can be of help to a larger extent in reducing penetration of solar radiation indoors.

When planning layouts an architect often wishes to know the areas in or about buildings exposed to, or shaded from, direct sunlight, and what shadow is cast on the building by neighboring structures, trees etc., at any time of the day and any season of the year.