In current architectural practice some important changes are taking place because of the developm... more In current architectural practice some important changes are taking place because of the development of numerous Building Performance Simulations (BPS) tools to support design decisions during early phases of the design process. Many difficulties still persist, however, not necessarily due to the limitations of the available technology, but to the lack of appropriate methodologies to use the existing tools to improve the decision making process, particularly at the early design stages. In this work we present an application of performance-based design in early design phases, with the purpose to take better-informed decisions which would ultimately contribute to improve the energy performance of buildings.
Over the past three decades, performance-based design has pursued the development of a methodolog... more Over the past three decades, performance-based design has pursued the development of a methodology that anticipates the impact of a design solution in order to evaluate its performance. According to this methodology, designing can be considered as an iterative process of exploration, where desired performance requirements are defined –problem space–, design alternatives are proposed –solutions space–, and a process of evaluation is used to determine the confluence of the predicted solutions performance to the stated performance requirements, i.e. the solutions space can be refined through iterative simulations. Energy efficiency is one of the fundamental issues to evaluate the performance of buildings. This paper summarizes a research work which seeks to apply a performance-based design methodology to support the decision-making process in order to improve the energy performance of buildings. A case study of a social housing building recently built in Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, has been used to explore the application of performance-based design to make better informed decisions in the design process.
En la segunda mitad del siglo XX, la cibernética y el pensamiento sistémico, proporcionaron un nu... more En la segunda mitad del siglo XX, la cibernética y el pensamiento sistémico, proporcionaron un nuevo marco teórico para el diseño; a partir de estos nuevos conocimientos, que se generaron después de la aparición del ordenador, se empezó a desarrollar un nuevo modo de pensar el diseño, definido como Performance-based design (PBD). Mediante la aplicación de métodos analíticos, y con el apoyo de la tecnología informática, el PBD tiene por objeto facilitar una metodología que simula los efectos de diferentes soluciones de diseño, con el fin de mejorar la eficacia del proceso de toma de decisiones, es decir el diseño .
In current architectural practice some important changes are taking place because of the developm... more In current architectural practice some important changes are taking place because of the development of numerous Building Performance Simulations (BPS) tools to support design decisions during early phases of the design process. Many difficulties still persist, however, not necessarily due to the limitations of the available technology, but to the lack of appropriate methodologies to use the existing tools to improve the decision making process, particularly at the early design stages. In this work we present an application of performance-based design in early design phases, with the purpose to take better-informed decisions which would ultimately contribute to improve the energy performance of buildings.
Over the past three decades, performance-based design has pursued the development of a methodolog... more Over the past three decades, performance-based design has pursued the development of a methodology that anticipates the impact of a design solution in order to evaluate its performance. According to this methodology, designing can be considered as an iterative process of exploration, where desired performance requirements are defined –problem space–, design alternatives are proposed –solutions space–, and a process of evaluation is used to determine the confluence of the predicted solutions performance to the stated performance requirements, i.e. the solutions space can be refined through iterative simulations. Energy efficiency is one of the fundamental issues to evaluate the performance of buildings. This paper summarizes a research work which seeks to apply a performance-based design methodology to support the decision-making process in order to improve the energy performance of buildings. A case study of a social housing building recently built in Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, has been used to explore the application of performance-based design to make better informed decisions in the design process.
En la segunda mitad del siglo XX, la cibernética y el pensamiento sistémico, proporcionaron un nu... more En la segunda mitad del siglo XX, la cibernética y el pensamiento sistémico, proporcionaron un nuevo marco teórico para el diseño; a partir de estos nuevos conocimientos, que se generaron después de la aparición del ordenador, se empezó a desarrollar un nuevo modo de pensar el diseño, definido como Performance-based design (PBD). Mediante la aplicación de métodos analíticos, y con el apoyo de la tecnología informática, el PBD tiene por objeto facilitar una metodología que simula los efectos de diferentes soluciones de diseño, con el fin de mejorar la eficacia del proceso de toma de decisiones, es decir el diseño .
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