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Opportunities for AI to Improve Sustainable Building Design Processes
Haymaker, John R. (Design Process Innovation)
Sustainable building design is a complex social and technical process in which a broad range of stakeholders must construct and clearly communicate high quality design spaces. This paper summarizes recent assessments of current practice that illustrate how far industry today is from achieving this quality and clarity. Efforts to develop a platform of tools to address these limitations are discussed. PIP helps people communicate, share, and understand collaborative design processes; MACDADI helps project teams identify and manage rationale and consensus on decisions; Design Scenarios helps them generate requirements-driven alternative spaces, BIM, model-based analysis, and PIDO which helps to systematically assess these alternatives for their energy, daylight, structural, and cost impacts; and iRooms and the web, which help to communicate all of this information to engage designers, stakeholders, and decision makers in fast, multidisciplinary design and analysis processes. This new platform considerably improves the quality and clarity of AEC design spaces. However additional work would enable significant additional improvement. The paper concludes with a proposal for how AI might further improve the performance of this platform.
Smart Homes or Smart Occupants? Reframing Computational Design Models for the Green Home
Bartram, Lyn (Simon Fraser University) | Woodbury, Rob (Simon Fraser University)
Buildings designed around occupant A sustainable home is more than a green building: it is also intelligence will provide flexible, adaptive task a living experience that encourages occupants to use fewer environments, refined control zones and technologies that resources more effectively. Research has shown that small maximize occupants' access to adaptive opportunities changes in behaviour in how we use our homes, such as (Cole & Brown, 2009). Architects, engineers and system turning off lights, reducing heat and uncovering or designers are faced with the challenge of reframing design covering windows, or shortening showers, can result in strategies as a co-evolution of human and building substantial energy and water savings. But changing the intelligence that will encourage as well as underpin way we use resources is proving challenging.