Description
Energy-based building designs are becoming popular in recent decades. Designers have begun to implement aerodynamic simulation and optimisation into conceptual design. However, in the design process, architectural energy simulating is sometimes separated from the design. Designers may try different modeling approaches and manually optimize the design, or use simulation tool to polish the final products. To solve this problem, building an integrated Aerodynamic Shape Optimisation (ASO) design workflow is crucial. This paper investigates the previous researches of principles behind building performance simulations and model-based optimisation, analyse the cause of the simulation and optimisation separated from the design. Through comparative experiments and building performance simulation, this paper explores the advantages of FFD simulation tool and creates a data-dock script with structure simulation, solving the efficiency problem in wind loads simulation software and linking the wind loads simulation into architectural design. Through the application of the model-based optimisation software — Opossum, this paper creates an integrated ASO workflow script prevent the simulation being separated from the design process, referencing Rhinoceros combined with Grasshopper. This integrated computational ASO workflow script programming contributes to the application aerodynamic simulation and optimisation into architectural geometry design, and assists architectural designers in designing aerodynamic-performance-based projects integrally from the early design stages.| Period | Jul 2020 |
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