Description: 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. I (Giovanni Zemella) am a façade engineer at Arup. I specialize in analyzing the energy performance of façades and the effect they have on the overall behavior of buildings. During my PhD and my experience as a research fellow at the University, I studied evolutionary optimization procedures and applied them to the façade design. I (Andrea Faraguna) am an architect working in Italy and Germany. My practice is addressed to projects of different scale within the city. My research is focused on the historical study of the design process and the relation between technique and architecture.
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EAN: 9781447172055
UPC: 9781447172055
ISBN: 9781447172055
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Item Length: 23.4 cm
Number of Pages: 121 Pages
Publication Name: Evolutionary Optimisation of Facade Design: a New Approach for the Design of Building Envelopes
Language: English
Publisher: Springer London Ltd
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Engineering & Technology
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 2117 g
Subject Area: Educational Technology, Building Services Engineering, Electrical Engineering
Author: Andrea Faraguna, Giovanni Zemella
Item Width: 155 mm
Format: Paperback
