Research Innovations for Advanced Analysis and Multi-Performance Driven Design in the Built Environment
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G1: Smart Cities and Urban Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2023) | Viewed by 14942
Special Issue Editors
Interests: architecture; urban design; daylighting; performance-driven design; outdoor comfort; environmental design; parametric design; design exploration
Interests: solar energy; solar potential; daylight; urban climate; building technology; parametric modeling; building and neighborhood energy design
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Interests: computational design; multi-objective multi-disciplinary optimization; performance-driven design; computational design exploration
Interests: architecture; planning; simulation; environmental design; artificial intelligence; mixed reality; positive energy districts
Interests: daylighting; energy modeling; passive control strategies; performance-driven design; wind simulations; outdoor comfort; simulations at urban scale; mobility modeling; software tools
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Researchers, architects, designers, and planners are increasingly urged to develop approaches, methods, solutions, and tools to tackle the pressing issues of resource depletion, urban liveability, adaptation of the built environment, increasing CO2 emissions, and related climate change. It is no longer sufficient to design and realize energy efficient buildings and districts and net-zero energy solutions. It is even more needed to generate a wider, positive impact on the built environment through low carbon and positive energy solutions. It has become evident that by addressing the single performance of buildings and analyzing the single urban scale it is not possible to guarantee the relevant impacts and diverse benefits necessary to improve the overall liveability of the cities and the quality of the built environment. Furthermore, minimum energy and visual and thermal comfort requirements are often regulated by potentially conflicting standards, metrics, and building codes. Thus, holistic approaches are necessary in order to develop sustainable architecture design solutions and resilient, regenerative urban planning strategies that enable to analyze the mutual interrelations of multiple performances, in single or multiple domains, from single buildings to neighborhood and district scales, thus linking anthropogenic and natural ecosystems. In this regard, during recent years, several researchers have been focusing on holistic and multi-objective and multi-disciplinary approaches. This Special Issue aims to provide insight into the most innovative, holistic, multi-domain, multi-disciplinary and multi-objective approaches in order to guide and support the scientific and design community at large and to trigger new research trajectories and tendencies.
Contributions on the following topics, but not limited to, are expected:
- Investigations about trade-offs performance to balance competing solar energy uses, such as daylight vs. energy, solar accessibility vs. indoor thermal and visual comfort, and energy consumption vs. photovoltaics energy generation.
- Innovative methods and solutions for the simultaneous fulfillment of different codes’ requirements and metric-recommended thresholds in the indoor building environment and/or urban outdoor environment.
- Development of multi-objective workflows integrating indoor building performance, e.g., daylight, occupant comfort and health, and energy, and outdoor performance, e.g., pedestrian thermal comfort, and wind comfort, as well as the effects of mitigation and adaptation strategies, e.g., trees, vegetated surfaces, and water features, considering the mutual interactions between indoor and outdoor factors.
- Innovative digital and computer advanced methods and technologies of co-simulation approaches in multiple domains, ranging from building to neighborhood up to the district scale.
Research works investigating the aforementioned topics and beyond, through the development of parametric workflows, building information and urban building energy modeling, computational methodologies, multi-objective optimization algorithms, digital twin, digitalization, artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital tools, and design-simulation software, are strongly encouraged to contribute to this Special Issue.
Dr. Francesco De Luca
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Lobaccaro
Prof. Dr. Michela Turrin
Dr. Angelos Chronis
Prof. Dr. Timur Dogan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- green shift for the built environment
- energy transition
- performance-driven design
- outdoor comfort
- indoor comfort
- solar energy
- energy consumption
- renewable energy
- multi-domain
- multi-scale
- multi-objective
- digitalization
- computation
- digital twin
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- deep learning
- parametric design
- building information modeling
- geographic information system
- urban building energy modeling
- design exploration
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