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Figure 3: Option A1 Series. The four best optimized versions of this series.
Figure 4: Detail of the building geometry of Option A1-1 highlighting Floor 9, and the CBDM unit analysis of Floor 16 using DIVA-for-Rhino. The analysis shows percentage of occupied hours that these nodes receive the target illuminance of 100 lux. In terms of spatial daylight autonomy six of the floorplates equal the spatial daylight autonomy target of 2% as in the base case, six perform less well in terms of DA but better in mean DA, and fourteen exceed the base case with the highest being 9%. Reflecting on results of Option A1 and the testing of version 1, the limitation of keeping each unit a single floor height was determined to be restrictive, and Option A2 explores the potentials of generating double height spaces. Table 2: Option A1 Version 1 DIVA results
Figure 5: Option A2 Series. The four best optimized versions.
Figure 6: Detail of the building geometry of Option A2-1 highlighting Floor 3, and the CBDM unit analysis of Floor 9 using DIVA-for-Rhino. The analysis shows percentage of occupied hours that these nodes receive the target illuminance of 100 lux. Some of the results are impacted by the different floor areas generated per floor and the corresponding daylight performance. For example, floor 3 is the highest performing at 16% DA. This floorplate is small as it is generated by accommodating many double height spaces on the first floor. The entire floorplate of Level 3 is only 198m2 (2131 sqft) including the core zone, so there will be fewer units. These units would arguably be very high quality and higher value, as their views into neighbouring
Surface reflectance and glass transmittance used in the DIVA simulations.
Generative Design Approaches to Daylight in MURBs
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September 2019

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Access to acceptable levels of daylight are important for people’s quality of life. Multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs) are known to perform poorly in terms of daylight compared to other residential building types. There are neither appropriate agreed upon metrics, nor effective methods for designing for daylight in MURBs. This paper presents results of a speculative design study that utilizes generative design to explore alternative geometries for the MURB tower typology. The experiment combines a genetic algorithm for spatial variation with climate-based daylight modeling (CBDM) to test the new forms against variations of the point tower MURB floorplan are commonly used. This paper identifies the poor performance of typical MURBs for daylight, and proposed new techniques for form generation. A new workflow has been developed and tested and a number of challenging issues have been identified.

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... Additionally, the subtractive generation procedure of discretized forms allows for initial performance analyses of alternative generated conceptual building massings [49] (Figure 6). Subtractive form finding procedures were also developed by eliminating clusters of cells, and these are determined via designer input based on the orientation and location in the buildingʹs layout, thus taking into account the internal spatial organization [50], and on the basis of performance analyses on daylight availability in the modules of each building floor [51]. Following an inverse process, the additive procedure was used to add voxels to the spatial grids of potential locations if they are inside a maximum building volume [52] and volumes as living modules to predefined schematic building massings [53]. ...

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Advances in Climatic Form Finding in Architecture and Urban Design
Generative Design Approaches to Daylight in MURBs

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