Evolutionary Optimisation of Facade Design - A New Approach for the Design of Building Envelopes (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer London
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Giovanni Zemella • Andrea Faraguna
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	121
Edition:	2014 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4471-5651-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Architectural structure & design Books > Professional & Technical > Energy technology & engineering > Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Building construction & materials > General
LSN:	1-4471-5651-X
Barcode:	9781447156512

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