Sustainability through Optimal Design of Buildings for Natural Ventilation using Updated Comfort and Occupancy Models

2023/12/11 by J.-Y. Chung, Nastaran Shahmansouri, Chung, Jihoon +7
Engineering · Environmental Science · #Building Energy and Comfort Optimization #Computational Engineering #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Finance #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #Urban Heat Island Mitigation #Wind and Air Flow Studies #and Science (cs.CE) #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.06498

openalex publication_date 2023/12/11 · openalex created_date 2023/12/14 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This paper explores the benefits of incorporating natural ventilation (NV) simulation into a generative process of designing residential buildings to improve energy efficiency and indoor thermal comfort. Our proposed workflow uses the Wave Function Collapse algorithm to generate a diverse set of plausible floor plans. It also includes post-COVID occupant presence models while incorporating adaptive comfort models. We conduct four sets of experiments using the workflow, and the simulated results suggest that multi-mode cooling strategies combining conventional air conditioning with NV can often significantly reduce energy use while introducing only slight reductions in thermal comfort.

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