Integrated life-cycle design of building enclosures

Mora, Rodrigo; Bitsuamlak, Girma; Horvat, Miljana

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.01.018

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“…New technologies and smart materials and new distribution systems have introduced the bio-models to understand the behavior and design of building systems and their performance control. Investigating future skins should lead to the development of design methodology, the elements and components of the envelope, and the integration of facilities and services in the crust with regard to energy, environmental and performance requirements as key elements [17].…”

Section: Comparing Building System With Living Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolution of Building Envelopes through Creating Living Characteristics

Najafi¹,

Faizi²

2017

JCEA

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Building envelopes include facades and roof, which have the most interaction and exchange with outside and natural environment. In the future, meeting buildings various complicated needs with new technological advances necessitates a change and evolution in building envelopes. Controlling the energy consumption of the buildings is mostly through controlling the energy performance of the building envelopes. New technologies lead to the intelligent facades and envelopes. The envelope can be designed to be a part of the whole building's metabolism (energy production, storage and consumption) and morphology. The envelope would be a controlled part of the building which is managed through the central control system of the building, which connects it to other parts. It caused building envelope design to be changed fundamentally, so that there is a need to interact with engineering disciplines including computer engineering, mechanical engineering, material engineering and so on. All of these caused building envelope to get closer to biological and living systems. The physical restrictions which affect buildings system and living systems are the same. So they cause the same forces to shape the structure and form of the systems and the same rules to interact with the environment. The restrictions of material and energy resources caused living systems to be energy efficient and consuming less material. But the most important difference between living systems and building systems is in maximum use of different resources. As living systems use information maximally, the building system technology is based on using maximum energy. Now, there are many reasons and restrictions that building envelopes cannot act like living systems. But technological developments and contributing more disciplines in design and construction of building envelopes caused the future way of these envelopes get close to living systems for their energy efficiency. Some of living systems characteristics which the future building envelopes would have partially or benefit for the design process or construction are self-organization, evolution principles, hierarchical levels, processing energy, reaction to environmental stimuli and self-adjustment. Self-organization is achieved in some design software and in building material production for creating formal patterns. Evolution principles provide infrastructure for soft wares for optimization purposes and form creation. Hierarchical levels refer to giving hierarchical structure to the building envelopes through layering and designing different scales. Processing energy (metabolism) would be achieved through photovoltaic and solar collectors to produce energy and in passive systems for energy storage and distribution. Controlling solar radiation absorption and transmittance would help energy transfer from outside to building and vice versa. Reaction to environmental stimuli which is one of the most important characteristics of future building envelopes would use different types of active and passi...

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Section: Comparing Building System With Living Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolution of Building Envelopes through Creating Living Characteristics

Najafi¹,

Faizi²

2017

JCEA

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“…Mora et al indicates that for integral life cycle building design, there is a need for more integrated treatment of buildings in research, education, and practice [6]. Mark De Kay in his book, shares his levels of complexity, which he argues arise from the unfolding sequence of development in human individuals, cultures and physical systems, which manifest as developmental sequences such as those for values, cognition, biological evolution, economic systems and world views [4].…”

Section: Integral Design Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integration of theory courses and design studio in architectural education using sustainable development

Bozkurt

2016

SHS Web of Conferences

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Abstract. Sustainable development has been approved by many experts as the only suitable model for the growth of the next generation. Education has a valuable role to distribute sustainable approach to all subject fields like architecture. Sustainable development is gaining a central position in the conceptual framework of architectural education in universities. Universities are complex organizations that are frequently quite stable in the short term, but inevitably evolving over the longer term in response to changes in the societies. At the moment, there are various debates for changing non-renewable with more renewable and efficient architectural design strategies. Architectural Design has always attempted to merge the practicalities of engineering, technology, culture, and economy with the subtle elements of interface, social concerns and aesthetic desire. It has a crucial place for to engage with the sustainable strategies that provide countless environmental, economic, community, health and safety benefits. The education of the students about opportunities, risks, benefits and scientific knowledge of sustainable approach provide valuable contribution towards integral relationships. The theory lessons concentrate mainly on climate, thermal comfort, materials, and optimization of performance, environment and energy fields. Curriculum, knowledge and the teaching methods are connected with each other, especially on the search for the innovative ideas. As innovative ideas emerge, data available for the design process increases. However, such new data cannot be integrated to the design education as desired by current conventional teaching methods in a reliable context. At some points, this situation inhibits the creation of innovative ideas in architectural design. In order to acquire such data and to flourish a sustainable society accordingly, fast and efficient access to knowledge databases is needed. In this study, the research evaluates the current architectural education in Yasar University and suggests a proposal for the integration of theoretical courses and design studio under Sustainable Development.

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“…For this reason, Multi Criteria Decision Analysis often appears here like a complementary tool to LCA or LCC (Bachmann, 2012;Mora et al, 2011). There are many attempts to apply different multi-criteria analysis methods, combine them or improve some gaps by developing new methods.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%