Hello Ladybug community,
I’m embarking on an urban development project involving 150 houses and need help integrating environmental analysis into the iterative design process. While I’m quit familiar with Grasshopper, this is my ‘first’ time using Ladybug Tools (apart from some very simple stuff in the past). Given the short amount of time for this particular project, (less then 2 weeks for start to finish) I’d appreciate your advice on where to start.
I’m interested in performing the following analyses as part of the design process:
- Sun and daylight analysis (optimizing building form and orientation for sunlight)
- Indoor lighting analysis (energy efficiency and comfort considerations for the architectural design)
- Urban wind analysis (for ventilation, outdoor comfort, and assessing wind impact)
- BREEAM certification (sustainability throughout the design)
Could you recommend specific starter .gh Grasshopper files that are best suited for these analyses? The number of resources (especially YouTube videos) is overwhelming, but I’m unsure which ones are the most reliable for a somewhat beginners, yet resulting in professional, super reliable results I can share with the project developer at the end of this project. So any advice on the best tutorials to follow would also be appreciated, or ideally ready make .gh templates which just require swapping input geometry and geo location.
Additionally, do I need to work with Honeybee, Dragonfly, or other plugins/software from the toolkit for this kind of work?
I am on rhino 8, windows.
Thank you for your help!
