Vdara Hotel Solar Case Study

The outdoor swimming pool at the Vdara Hotel in Las Vegas suffers from sun reflections off the hotel's south facing surface and the west facing surfaces of the Aria Hotel located across the street to the southeast. This massing model study constructed in Rhino5/Grasshopper and using the Heliotrope Solar Calculator plugin developed at Slate Shingle Studio, demonstrates the ability to analyze the solar characteristics of an early massing model.