Healing by transforming: Creating the empowered healing environment

According to the Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM), there will be more focus on tackling the unhealthy effects of urbanization in the near future. This together with the presence of a large stock of vacant buildings and other developments within these urban areas and the challenges which are formed by the developments in...

Machine learning-based assessment tool for predicting daylight and visual comfort

Early design choices in building shape and fenestration significantly influ- ence the yearly daylight performance of office buildings. Annual daylight performance must be analyzed at the conceptual design stage to support building form and fenestration design decisions. However, the simulation modeling and daylight calculations necessary for the...

Humble Giants: Computational Intelligence for Designing More Sustainable High-rise Buildings using Surrogate Models

As urbanization increases around the world, high-rise buildings will continue to become a more prevailing typology, nonetheless, due in part to cumbersome computational simulations, rarely do designers have enough information during the early stages of design, which is the time when their choices affect the most the efficiency of their building....

Daylight in offices: A comparison between the Dutch and European standards for daylight in buildings

The current Dutch standard for daylight in buildings does not assure good daylight quality.<br/>Designers therefore often do not know when a building has good daylight quality and how they can design a visually comfortable and healthy building.<br/><br/>The new European standard for daylight in buildings is more elaborative and recommends a...