Attia, Shady Galal Mohamed
[UCL]
De Herde, André
[UCL]
Proposing initial ideas for zero energy buildings is a difficult task. Various existing BPS tools have
been proposed and are used to support the design of zero energy buildings during later design stages.
However, this is when many detailed decisions about the design have already been taken. There is a growing
awareness to integrate BPS tools in the design process during early design phases. This is one of the main
objectives of that we adopt here to develop a suggested decision tool. In this paper, we specifically discuss the
realization of a tool for early architectural design of zero energy housing. The paper presents the first prototype
of this tool that has been tested with different volunteers to see how they react. A major focus of his work is the
graphical user interface. We describe the interface development process, the resulting prototype and its
performance for initial design conception of different zero energy housing typologies. We also identify direction
for future development of the tool.
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Bibliographic reference |
Attia, Shady Galal Mohamed ; De Herde, André. Design Decision Tool for Zero Energy Buildings.In: Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Vol. 1, no. 1 (2011) |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/92512 |