Approaching nearly zero energy of PV direct air conditioners by integrating building design, load flexibility and PCM

The energy matching of PV driven air conditioners is influenced by building load demand and PV generation. Merely increasing energy performance of building or PV capacity separately may improve the energy balance on a large time resolution, the real-time energy mismatching problem is still serious. In this study, a coordinated optimization...

Development and Validation of a Roadmap to Assist the Performance-Based Early-Stage Design Process of Adaptive Opaque Facades

Adaptive Opaque Facades (AOF) is an innovative concept with potential to achieve low carbon energy buildings. However, so far AOF are not integrated in the construction industry. One remarkable issue that designers have when dealing with alternative low-carbon technologies, such as AOF, is the absence of previous built experiences and the lack...

Tourists’ perceptions of green building design and their intention of staying in green hotel

Hotel developers incorporate green building design to save on capital and operation cost. Hotel operators adopt green practice to affect tourists’ intention of staying (IoS). This paper recognises the important contribution of green building design and eco-service provision to green hotels. It investigates the internal relationships of...

Performative computational architecture using swarm and evolutionary optimisation: A review

This study presents a systematic review and summary of performative computational architecture using swarm and evolutionary optimisation. The taxonomy for one hundred types of studies is presented herein that includes different sub-categories of performative computational architecture, such as sustainability, cost, functionality, and...

Development of a user-friendly regression model to evaluate carbon emissions of office buildings design in the subtropics

Purpose: Design teams have difficulties in assessing building carbon emissions at an early stage, as most building energy simulation tools require a detailed input of building design for estimation. The purpose of this paper is to develop a user-friendly regression model to estimate carbon emissions of the preliminary design of office...

Acoustically effective facade

Today’s city centres in European metropolitan areas are comprised of facades made of steel, glass and stone. These hard reflective facades are amplifying the perception of noise sources by human ears in their vicinity. Up to now in building designs this effect is neglected. Thus the number of people harmed by noise is increasing with the...

Climate-responsive design: A framework for an energy concept design-decision support tool for architects using principles of climate-responsive design

In climate-responsive design the building becomes an intermediary in its own energy housekeeping, forming a link between the harvest of climate resources and low-energy provision of comfort. Essential here is the employment of climate-responsive building elements; structural and architectural elements in which the energy infrastructure is far...

The Biorefinery expo

The Biorefinery combines water treatment, organic waste treatment in one building together with public functions like a swimming pool, botanical gardens, community gardens, visitors routes and research labs. Organic waste and sewage sludge from the water-treatment system are used to produce bio-gas by anaerobic digestion for generating heat and...

Craftsmanship in the Digital Age: Reintegrating making and living in the Zomerhofkwartier Rotterdam

The project explores a new relation between places of production and places for living. A small business area is densified with housing on top of existing structures. A tower is added which combines workspaces and duplex apartments. It shows how a very flexible yet specific casco can allow different types of use.

CCAM (Chicago Cluster of Advanced Manufacturing)

Urban strategy, masterplan and building design for a revitalisation of the manufacturing industry in Chicago in times of transition towards advanced manufacturing.

Bio-based Railway Canopy: Application of bio-based building materials in canopies of railway stations

Background Consumption of materials is an always ongoing process. In the linear economy, or a ‘take-make-dispose’ consumption pattern there is no attention for the rest value of products. The circular economy and bio-based economy introduce that loop-back for materials at the end of their lifetime. This research is about the application of bio...

[Architectural] Reasoning over BIM/CAD Database

Design activity is pervasive as it is increasingly expanding into all sectors and every day it is increasingly difficult to anticipate the often unpredictable changes resulting from new inventions and changes in technology, tools, methods and social customs using current design systems, and at the same time we need to preserve and store...

Exploring design support possibilities of building performance simulation tools in building design process

Simulation is claimed to be an effective tool in building design to degrade the systems integration matter into comprehension of designers with either a tool or a process related approach. In this study, pre-design phase is considered with energy performance point of view. Aim of the study is exploring integration possibilities of building...

Designing Indoor Climate

The quality of the indoor climate of buildings is the result of design decisions that architects make. In order to have the ability to correctly design indoor climate, designers need feedback on the performance of the design. Indoor climate analysis may provide this type of feedback. This research aimed to improve the design process on the...