Concept, Design & Engineering : ECHOES.PARIS
Student: Congzheng Zou
Professional Tutor: Sébastien Perrault – ECHOES.PARIS
Academic Tutor: Oliver Dambron
Date : 2017-2018
The abuse of high window-to-wall ratio in educational buildings has caused various negative effects on students due to neglect of comfort and sustainability.
This research paper is a preliminary exploration of passive solar design in complex educational buildings. The goal is to explore the design space of good options for static shading devices to improve the performance of the building envelope. The main approach is to combine shading device parameters with weather data and building performance metrics.
This study explores the optimum shading device for a single classroom in ENPC and a complex project provided by ECHOES.PARIS using scientific methods.
The results show that genetic algorithms are applicable in identifying the optimum shading device for small-scale architecture. For complex building envelopes, performance improvement is possible, but strategies are needed to find better shading solutions.
