Applying a parametric design approach for optimizing daylighting and visual comfort in office buildings

ElBatran, Raghda M.; Ismaeel, Walaa S.E.

doi:10.1016/j.asej.2021.02.014

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“…Types of Glazing: Glazing is the main element responsible for around 30 percent of energy load within the building, and has a huge influence on the thermal comfort of users because it is mainly related to indoor air temperature [12,13,24]. In the case study, the height of the glazing system was 1.5 meters and represent 30 percent of the façade area and they were made from aluminium window frames.…”

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“…Passive design can be applied in most buildings to improve design procedures while ensuring the results will accomplish less consumption of energy while ensuring that it will not influence climate change. The major aim of passive design is to remove any active mechanical operations while ensuring the comfort of users [11,12]. During the past few years, most designers and architects in Egypt did not take into consideration the use of certain techniques to reduce impacts on the environment.…”

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Passive measures for energy-efficient economic class housing units in national housing projects

Ismaeel

2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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This study investigates passive building design measures and how they may differ according to the surrounding context. This particularly stands as an important consideration for economic class housing units which are seen as repetitive cluster units of the same architectural design plan. These units have a typical design that does not respond to their contexts, hence, the study proves with evidence that the building performance varies from one city to another, taking three cities Cairo, Alexandria and Aswan of different climatic zones. This is carried through a series of computer simulations using a validated software program to investigate the effect of adding passive design measures on building performance e.g. thermal walls, double glazing system, and shading devices. The results verified the significant difference in building energy performance in the three studied cities. It also showed that shading devices are a common passive design measure that contributed towards reducing energy consumption in the prototype building in the three cities. This showed the necessity of integrating proper passive design features in economic class housing units because they represent a repeated prototype building.

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Passive measures for energy-efficient economic class housing units in national housing projects

Ismaeel

2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…Kim et al [31] proposed a daylight glare control system using a window-mounted high dynamic range image (HDRI) sensor to identify the glare source and found it could fully protect from a detected glare source and maintain indoor visual comfort. ElBatran et al [32] carried out a parametric study on daylight availability and visual comfort for an office building with a double skin facade and found that the perforation percentage and skin depth had the greatest impact on daylight performance.…”

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Design Optimization of a Passive Building with Green Roof through Machine Learning and Group Intelligent Algorithm

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This paper proposed an optimization method to minimize the building energy consumption and visual discomfort for a passive building in Shanghai, China. A total of 35 design parameters relating to building form, envelope properties, thermostat settings, and green roof configurations were considered. First, the Latin hypercube sampling method (LHSM) was used to generate a set of design samples, and the energy consumption and visual discomfort of the samples were obtained through computer simulation and calculation. Second, four machine learning prediction models, including stepwise linear regression (SLR), back-propagation neural networks (BPNN), support vector machine (SVM), and random forest (RF) models, were developed. It was found that the BPNN model performed the best, with average absolute relative errors of 3.27% and 1.25% for energy consumption and visual comfort, respectively. Third, six optimization algorithms were selected to couple with the BPNN models to find the optimal design solutions. The multi-objective ant lion optimization (MOALO) algorithm was found to be the best algorithm. Finally, optimization with different groups of design variables was conducted by using the MOALO algorithm with the associated outcomes being analyzed. Compared with the reference building, the optimal solutions helped reduce energy consumption up to 34.8% and improved visual discomfort up to 100%.

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“…Generative design is also beneficial in the production stage: masscustomization [27] and mass-production [28]. In the meantime, parametric design has various applications in architecture: conservation [29], restoration [30], urbanism [31], landscape planning [32], green building [33], wind-based design [34], prefabricated buildings [35], wooden structures [36], design exploration [37], emulate patterns [38], analyzing performance [39], building structure analyses [40], visual comfort [41], and BIM [8]. It can also help to create less ecological damages: structural efficiency [42], sustainable building renovation [43], daylighting [44], and energy-efficient building form [45].…”

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Bibliometric Analysis of Generative Design, Algorithmic Design, and Parametric Design in Architecture

Michelle

Gemilang²

2022

JARINA

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This research aims to display, compare, and analyze the keywords related to parametric design, generative design, and algorithmic design. Digital design has become increasingly inseparable from architects; thus, 3D modeling software has become a necessity for architects. The digital workflow has put computational design—generative design, algorithmic design, and parametric design—into importance. There are emerging trends for the past decade, and a bibliometric analysis can display information about trends in the literature. Literature trends may provide insight into the direction of computational design development. This study uses a bibliometric analysis with VOSviewer and data from Lens to identify the trends from 2011 to 2021. The result indicates several trends: artificial intelligence, computation, machine learning, visualization, and internet technology. The trend analysis needs to be continued in other computational design categories to find continuity in the findings.

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Applying a parametric design approach for optimizing daylighting and visual comfort in office buildings

Cited by 36 publications

References 49 publications

Passive measures for energy-efficient economic class housing units in national housing projects

Passive measures for energy-efficient economic class housing units in national housing projects

Design Optimization of a Passive Building with Green Roof through Machine Learning and Group Intelligent Algorithm

Bibliometric Analysis of Generative Design, Algorithmic Design, and Parametric Design in Architecture

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