Designing indoor climate : a thesis on the integration of indoor climate analysis in architectural design : proefschrift ...

1 Introduction iv 1.1 Background and Problem definition 1 1.1.1 Architectural Design 3 1.1.2 Design and Indoor climate 5 1.2 Research Objective 10 1.2.1 Constraints and considerations 10 1.3 Research Questions 12 1.4 Research Method 13 1.5 Thesis outline 14 2 Indoor Climate Analysis 17 2.1 Indoor climate 17 2.2 Climate analysis 23 2.2.1 Introduction 23 2.2.2 Temperature simulation 25 2.2.3 Airflow simulation 29 2.3 Findings 36 3 Correlation of representation and indoor climate analysis 39 3.1 Introduction 39 3.2 Design representations 40 3.2.1 Design Information categories 41 3.3 Related research 45 3.3.1 Introduction 45 3.3.2 Integrated design support systems 46 3.3.3 Integrated systems review 49 3.3.4 Digital Building models 51 3.3.5 Building models review 54 3.4 Automated recognition of design representations 56 3.4.1 Introduction 56 3.4.2 The Meta Drawing Model 59 3.4.3 Meta information structure 70 3.5 Compiling Input for Analysis 83 3.5.1 Thermal analysis 83 3.5.2 Airflow simulation 87 3.5.3 The ORCA project 91 iii 3.6 Findings 98 4 Precedents in indoor climate analysis 103 4.1 Introduction 103 4.2 Precedents in design 105 4.2.1 Introduction to Case Based Reasoning 105 4.2.2 Case based reasoning in architecture 107 4.2.3 Review and Discussion 110 4.3 Precedents in the Meta Design Environment 112 4.3.1 Introduction 112 4.3.2 Precedent representation 112 4.3.3 Automated recognition for precedents 114 4.3.4 Indoor climate control concepts 115 4.3.5 The CFD wizard 122 4.4 Findings 127 5 Indoor climate Visualization 131 5.1 Introduction 131 5.2 Rules and regulations 132 5.3 Indoor climate factors 138 5.3.1 Feedback criteria 139 5.3.2 First order factors 140 5.3.3 Second order factors 142 5.3.4 Results 144 5.4 Scientific Visualization 145 5.4.1 Application 145 5.4.2 Types 146 5.4.3 Scalars 148 5.4.4 Vectors 154 5.4.5 Tensors 159 5.4.6 Results 160 5.5 Applied visualization of indoor climate 161 5.5.1 Applicability 163 5.5.2 Results 163 5.5.3 Indoor climate visualization examples 163 5.5.4 Isometric surface 164 5.5.5 Streamline 166 5.5.6 Particle track 167 5.5.7 Icon 168 5.6 Findings 173 6 Design Analysis 175 6.1 Climate analysis in building design 175 6.2 Design Scenarios 179 iv 6.3 The Meta Design Method 183 6.4 Meta Design Examples 186 6.4.1 CFD situations 186 6.4.2 Design education 193 7 Conclusions 199 7.1 Indoor climate analysis 199 7.2 Representation 200 7.3 Precedents 203 7.4 Visualization 204 7.5 General Conclusions 206 References 209 Summary 220 Samenvatting 222 Curriculum Vitae 224