Solar Effective Envelope Design Advisor (SEEDA)
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| Publicat a: | ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (2003) |
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| Resum: | The lack of effort by mainstream architects in integrating energy-efficient strategies in architectural designing is due to the complexity in a building's energy conscious concepts and theories, the difficulties to visualize and quantify energy consumption, and the late implementing of energy consumption analysis in the conventional design process. This task would be accomplishing by a building system's engineer where results might be determined only after the basic architectural design has been completed. An effective simple tool and method should then be available to assist architects in building's energy-efficient designing at the beginning of the design. The building's energy consumption is directly and mainly influenced by the relationship of the sun, site, and its building configuration. The solar radiations will first impact on the building's envelope, which will have a direct effect on the amount of energy a building will consume. If an architect can define or map the intensity of solar energy on the site's buildable volume, and use this information to determine the levels of solar insolation, a more energy efficient building form can be proposed. This research hypothesis has shared the fundamental techniques of the Solar Envelope projection by Professor Ralph Knowles [Knowles, 1981] of the University of Southern California. However a different approach is taken by including the influence of regional restrictions and the surrounding buildings' shadows when projecting of solar volumes and solar envelope. The research methodology will discuss the development of a computer-based approach to develop a three-dimensional architectural form based on an insolation map related to the design site. The prototype computer program is referred as the Solar Effective Envelope Design Advisor (SEEDA). The solar insolation volume of the site is determined by integrating three types of computer-generated models include the Buildable Volume model based on design constraints; the Shading Condition Volumes models based on the shading objects that surrounded the adjacent site; and the Solar Envelope Volume model based on Ralph Knowles's principles and related research. Once the integrated volume is created, the levels of insolation at the volume's surface can then be determined and quantified. Hence, this solar insolation volume can be represented the effective envelope of the potential built-form and can be used as the reference for the solar energy-effective buildings design. |
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| ISBN: | 9780496356133 |
| Font: | ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global |