5. CONCLUSION
Combining visual comfort and performance evaluations served as a tool to examine the suitability of daylighting systems under high solar radiation. The method proved useful to determine design strategies for their use. The main points of these strategies were stated for their application.
Further research points that can refine the evaluation tool are related to improvement of glare evaluations, interaction of the systems with artificial light and optimization of device geometry.
The evaluation tool used in this study increases its importance when considering dynamic or intelligent daylighting devices, for example mobile sun tracking concentrators or motorized blinds.
Through the use of such tools and design strategies it is hoped to use efficiently a widely available resource and turn it from a potential problem into an architectural design aid.