Journal article
Tradeoff diagrams for the integrated design of the physical environment in buildings
Building and environment, v 15(1), pp 3-15
1980
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Abstract
Although computer programs providing very detailed simulations of a building's performance in a number of environmental components are now available, the information they offer is necessarily evaluative rather than prescriptive. As a method of investigating alternatives at the early stages of design, such programs are inefficient because they require the user to operate by trial and error. They also fail to provide any direct information on the relationship between different environmental components, information which is central to the concept of integrated environmental design. This paper describes the form and application of environmental tradeoff diagrams as an alternative computer aid for the design of the physical environment in buildings. Environmental tradeoff diagrams utilize the concepts of Pareto optimality in multi-criterion decision making to offer a designer prescriptive quantitative information which relates the performance achievable in different environmental components both to the building design and to each other. They are generated using a mathematical model of building/environment behaviour imbedded within an optimization problem formulation.
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- Title
- Tradeoff diagrams for the integrated design of the physical environment in buildings
- Creators
- Antony D. Radford - The University of SydneyJohn S. Gero - The University of Sydney
- Publication Details
- Building and environment, v 15(1), pp 3-15
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Number of pages
- 13
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1980JL82300001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0005022847
- Other Identifier
- 991022203057504721
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- Construction & Building Technology
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