Research
Ladybug and Honeybee Practice
An end-to-end environmental analysis of a New York building using Ladybug and Honeybee — covering sunlight hours, radiation, solar envelope, shadow impact, shading, and energy balance.
- Year
- 2021
- Role
- Developer
- Tools
- Grasshopper
About this project
A practice project applying the Ladybug and Honeybee plug-ins to a real building in New York, with geometry sourced from OpenStreetMap and weather data from the JFK Airport EPW file. The model was built up progressively — adding floors, zones, windows, and balconies — then used to run a full range of environmental analyses: sunlight hours, radiation mapping, solar envelope, shadow impact on surrounding buildings and streets, shading analysis, energy balance chart, and daylight simulation.
The project was a way to work through the complete Ladybug/Honeybee analysis pipeline in a realistic, grounded context.
sunlight hours analysis — extreme hot week
daylight simulation — January 13:00 view 1
daylight simulation — January 13:00 view 2
shade benefit analysis view 1
shade benefit analysis view 2
shadow impact on surrounding area — extreme cold week
shadow impact on surrounding area — extreme hot week
solar envelope — January 21, 9:00
solar envelope — January 21, 16:00
solar envelope — July 21, 9:00
solar envelope — July 21, 16:00
