AN INTEGRATED COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR NATURAL VENTILATION AND AIRBORNE CONTAMINANT DISPERSION ANALYSIS IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

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Abbas, Günsu Merin

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Over the last four decades, the negative impact of the building industry and the growing environmental crisis have led architects to develop sustainable design strategies for a better-performing built environment. Building performance tools, which are commonly used at the end of the design process, are not integrated into the design synthesis. Therefore, there is no integration between the performance parameters. In the literature, there are many studies focusing on the seamless integration of energy and daylighting analysis. In contrast, the integration of natural ventilation and indoor airborne contamination analysis is hitherto understudied. However, natural ventilation can reduce buildings’ energy demand and carbon emissions. Also, natural ventilation can provide healthy environments for building occupants by reducing potential indoor airborne contamination. There is a need for an integrated approach and a digital workflow, specifically addressing effective natural ventilation and the removal of airborne contamination. This research addresses the urgent need for the integration of natural ventilation and contaminant dispersion analysis to the creative design synthesis/analysis processes and develops an integrated and hybrid analysis pipeline that couples parametric design, building performance simulation (CFD, daylighting, energy, and contaminant transportation), and model testing (wind tunnel) methods. The developed pipeline is implemented for a case study that consists of the shading device design of an office building. Implementing the pipeline, improving indoor air quality by providing adequate natural ventilation, and reducing the airborne contaminants while keeping the thermal loads and daylighting optimized is aimed.

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integrated building performance simulation, natural ventilation, daylighting, energy performance, contaminant simulation, wind tunnel testing, CFD.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/94258

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G. M. Abbas, “AN INTEGRATED COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR NATURAL VENTILATION AND AIRBORNE CONTAMINANT DISPERSION ANALYSIS IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2021.