TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a holistic approach to low-energy building design
T2 - 33rd International on Passive and Low Energy Architecture Conference: Design to Thrive, PLEA 2017
AU - Purup, Pil Brix
AU - Jensen, Stina Rask
AU - Petersen, Steffen
AU - Kirkegaard, Poul Henning
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully appreciate the funding for this study provided by the NIRAS ALECTIA Foundation, the industrial Ph.D. programme at Innovation Fund Denmark and the Danish research project REVALUE. The residential used as case example is owned by Brabrand Boligforening (In Danish).
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © NCEUB 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Multiple and sometimes conflicting design aspects such as energy efficiency, architectural quality and environmental comfort for occupant satisfaction need to be addressed simultaneously when designing low-energy buildings holistically. However, the technical and thereby measureable qualities has a tendency to overrule the softer values, why recent research aims to transform spatial qualities into quantitative metrics, in order to support a more equal dialogue among multiple stakeholders. This paper presents a computational building model in which the ability to simulate the performance of two architectural metrics for evaluating spatial quality were implemented concerning (1) View-Out Quality and (2) Degree of Privacy, alongside with a tool for daylight and thermal performance simulations. The model was used in a case study in Aarhus, Denmark, where design of a facade for a living room in a senior dwelling was conducted, in order to illustrate how the new set of measurable architectural metrics may instigate a more qualified and holistic discussion on feasible trade-offs between energy use, daylight level, thermal indoor climate, and spatial quality (i.e. the notion of degree of view and privacy) in the design process.
AB - Multiple and sometimes conflicting design aspects such as energy efficiency, architectural quality and environmental comfort for occupant satisfaction need to be addressed simultaneously when designing low-energy buildings holistically. However, the technical and thereby measureable qualities has a tendency to overrule the softer values, why recent research aims to transform spatial qualities into quantitative metrics, in order to support a more equal dialogue among multiple stakeholders. This paper presents a computational building model in which the ability to simulate the performance of two architectural metrics for evaluating spatial quality were implemented concerning (1) View-Out Quality and (2) Degree of Privacy, alongside with a tool for daylight and thermal performance simulations. The model was used in a case study in Aarhus, Denmark, where design of a facade for a living room in a senior dwelling was conducted, in order to illustrate how the new set of measurable architectural metrics may instigate a more qualified and holistic discussion on feasible trade-offs between energy use, daylight level, thermal indoor climate, and spatial quality (i.e. the notion of degree of view and privacy) in the design process.
KW - Building Performance Evaluation
KW - Computational Design Model
KW - Indoor climate
KW - Low-Energy Design
KW - Spatial Quality
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M3 - Article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85085952146
T3 - Proceedings of 33rd PLEA International Conference: Design to Thrive, PLEA 2017
SP - 2132
EP - 2139
BT - Proceedings of 33rd PLEA International Conference
A2 - Brotas, Luisa
A2 - Roaf, Sue
A2 - Nicol, Fergus
PB - NCEUB 2017 - Network for Comfort and Energy Use in Buildings
Y2 - 2 July 2017 through 5 July 2017
ER -