Evolutionary Optimisation of Façade Design : A New Approach for the Design of Building Envelopes / / by Giovanni Zemella, Andrea Faraguna

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910299622903321
• Autore: Zemella Giovanni
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Springer London : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-4471-5652-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2014.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (127 p.)
• Disciplina: 621.042; 658.26; 690; 696
• Soggetti: Energy efficiency; Buildings—Design and construction; Building; Construction; Engineering, Architectural; Renewable energy resources; Design; Energy Efficiency; Building Construction and Design; Renewable and Green Energy; Design, general
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Envelopes -- Optimisation -- Successful Buildings -- An Example -- About the Author.
• Sommario/riassunto: Optimization techniques offer immense potential for the improvement of performance-driven design, since they allow the adoption of an holistic approach. This can lead to great advantages: optimal design solutions can be properly identified only if all criteria are considered at the same time, rather than separately. There are two barriers which obstruct optimization from being applied to building design: a technological barrier (applying the algorithms is not easy and can be ; quite time-consuming) and a cultural one (architects and engineers are required to change their perspectives as the design process has to be handled in a new way). This book explores these barriers from the perspective of both engineers and architects, and proposes a change in the attitudes of these two “actors”: an engineer and an architect develop a dialog which helps them understand each other’s perspective; in this way they find how they must both make a step forward.