Evaluation and Design of Smart-Built Environments Based on Advanced Performance Simulation: From Building to Regional Scales

Dear Colleagues,

The global energy shortage and climate change are imposing considerable challenges on architecture, while satisfying the thermal, visual, aesthetic, and sustainability demands. Because of the comprehensiveness of the architecture design targets and their interactions, it can sometimes be difficult for architects and engineers to fully consider the energy efficiency and environmental performances of the various plans while optimizing building designs, whether it is in relation to a single building or a complex of buildings. The recent developments of simulations and AI tools provide new approaches and potential solutions to the architectural design issues from building and regional environments, such as technical focuses, occupant expectations, and resource accessibility. This urges us to consider the roles and contributions of the simulation approaches from both the technology-oriented engineering and the design-based architecture perspectives.

We expect to achieve this target by collecting a series of original research works on architectural and urban designs that are aided by the latest computer simulation and artificial intelligence methods. The works should explore the roles, methods, and potential contributions of the simulation and artificial intelligence techniques in relation to recent designs and optimizations on aspects including indoor environment quality and energy performance, as well as environment, aesthetics, communication, cost, etc., in various spatial and temporal scales, from both architectural and engineering perspectives.

Dr. Yu Huang
Dr. Siwei Lou
Dr. Yukai Zou
Dr. Pei Huang
Guest Editors

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