Design of Low-energy Homes using Thermal and Daylight Simulations in Interactive Generative Parametric Modelling

TY - GEN

T1 - Design of Low-energy Homes using Thermal and Daylight Simulations in Interactive Generative Parametric Modelling

AU - Petersen, Steffen

AU - Rou, Lonnie Østerballe

AU - Purup, Pil Brix

AU - Kirkegaard, Poul Henning

PY - 2017/6

Y1 - 2017/6

N2 - There is an increasing effort to integrate building simulation tools into architectural CAD tool environments to enable evaluation of the effect of architectural considerations on other building performance issues such as energy use, thermal indoor climate, and daylight conditions, during the early design stages. One approach is to generate design advice using the concept of generative parametric modelling (GPM). GPM approaches often make use of an optimisation algorithm to automatically generate solutions that fulfils some predefined boundary conditions set by the designer - including architectural rules. The designer can revise the generated solutions and accept or discard any solutions e.g. from an architectural perspective. GPM setups where the designer has facilities that give direct control over the GPM input and output are sometimes referred to as interactive GPM. This paper presents an example of how a proposed interactive GPM framework can be used for generating prescriptive information to designers of a low-energy detached single-family home in Denmark. In relation to this, it is investigated how a set of architectural rules identified from an analysis of prevailing architectural styles may affect the solution space.

AB - There is an increasing effort to integrate building simulation tools into architectural CAD tool environments to enable evaluation of the effect of architectural considerations on other building performance issues such as energy use, thermal indoor climate, and daylight conditions, during the early design stages. One approach is to generate design advice using the concept of generative parametric modelling (GPM). GPM approaches often make use of an optimisation algorithm to automatically generate solutions that fulfils some predefined boundary conditions set by the designer - including architectural rules. The designer can revise the generated solutions and accept or discard any solutions e.g. from an architectural perspective. GPM setups where the designer has facilities that give direct control over the GPM input and output are sometimes referred to as interactive GPM. This paper presents an example of how a proposed interactive GPM framework can be used for generating prescriptive information to designers of a low-energy detached single-family home in Denmark. In relation to this, it is investigated how a set of architectural rules identified from an analysis of prevailing architectural styles may affect the solution space.

KW - Architecture

KW - Building design

KW - Daylight

KW - Energy use

KW - Indoor climate

KW - Parametric modelling

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M3 - Article in proceedings

VL - 1

SP - 272

EP - 279

BT - Proceedings of 33rd PLEA International Conference

A2 - Brotas, Luisa

A2 - Roaf, Susan

A2 - Nicol, Fergus

PB - Network for Comfort and Energy Use in Buildings (NCEUB)

CY - Edinburgh

T2 - PLEA 2017 Edinburgh

Y2 - 3 July 2017 through 5 July 2017

ER -