| authors |
Fazio, P., Bedard, C. and Gowri, K. |
| year |
1992 |
| title |
Constraints for Generating Building Envelope Design Alternatives |
| source |
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1992. pp. 145-155 : charts. includes bibliography |
| summary |
The building envelope design process involves selecting materials and constructional types for envelope components. Many different materials need to be combined together for wall and roof assemblies to meet the various performance requirements such as thermal efficiency, cost, acoustic and fire resistances. The number of performance attributes to be considered in the design process is large. Lack of information, time limitations and the large number of feasible design alternatives generally force the designer to rely on past experience and practical judgement to make rapid design decisions. Current work at the Centre for Buildings Studies focuses on the development of knowledge-based synthesis and evaluation techniques for reducing the problems of information handling and decision making in building envelope design. The generation of design alternatives is viewed as a search process that identifies feasible combinations of building envelope components satisfying a set of performance requirements, material compatibility, practicality of design, etc. This paper discusses knowledge acquisition and representation issues involved in the definition of constraints to guide the generation of feasible combinations of envelope components |
| keywords |
envelope, knowledge base, knowledge acquisition, representation, performance, design, structures, architecture, evaluation |
| series |
CADline |
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