Advanced daylighting evaluation applied to cultural heritage buildings and museums: Application to the cloister of Santa Maria El Paular

Santiago Mayorga Pinilla, Daniel Vázquez Moliní, Antonio Álvarez Fernández-Balbuena, Gabriel Hernández Raboso, Juan Antonio Herráez, Marta Azcutia and Ángel García Botella

Renewable Energy, 2016, vol. 85, issue C, 1362-1370

Abstract: A method to evaluate the risk of using daylight in museums and cultural heritage exhibitions is presented along this study. Although daylight is an ecological and sustainable source of energy and sometimes also an intrinsic part of the artwork, the use of Natural lighting may cause damages in them due to the difficulty of controlling its variability. The developed method quantifies the damage produced to the artworks by daylight compared to artificial light taking into account the level of radiation and its spectral distribution in space and time by comparison with the damage caused by an Illuminant A (Global Risk Factor). The method, applied to the permanent paintings exhibition in the cloister of the fifteenth century of the Monastery of Santa Maria de El Paular, certifies that the control and exploitation of Natural Light should consider an optimal balance between exposure and damage.

Keywords: Natural Light; Risk factor; Renewable energy; Artworks; Spectral irradiance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2015.07.011

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