Performance-based parametric design explorations: A method for generating appropriate building components

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2015-05-01

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Ercan, Burak
Elias Özkan, Soofia Tahira

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Performance-based parametric design explorations depend on formulating custom-designed workflows that require reading, writing, interpreting and manipulating databases, as part of the design process. The possibilities of customization and parameterization offered by the user-friendly interfaces of advanced building-performance simulation software and digital design tools have now enabled architects to carry out performance-based design explorations without the help of simulation experts. This paper presents a customized workflow methodology to explore design alternatives for producing shading devices that can optimize daylight, while blocking out excessive solar heat gains, in an office building in a hot and humid climate. The design alternatives were generated by evolutionary algorithms in accordance with daylight performance requirements and simulated to assess their shading and daylight efficiencies.

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Genetic Algorithms, Design Strategy, Generic Design, Simulation, Environmental Design

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/48193

Journal

DESIGN STUDIES

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2015.01.001

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Department of Architecture, Article

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B. Ercan and S. T. Elias Özkan, “Performance-based parametric design explorations: A method for generating appropriate building components,” DESIGN STUDIES, pp. 33–53, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/48193.