Building spatial design simulation and optimisation with structural and daylight objectives

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Ezendam, Tessa and van den Hoeven, Quimara and Hofmeyer, Herm and Aarts, Mariëlle; Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro and Kumar, Bimal, eds. (2025) Building spatial design simulation and optimisation with structural and daylight objectives. In: EG-ICE 2025. University of Strathclyde Publishing, GBR, pp. 114-123. ISBN 9781914241826 (https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00093239)

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Abstract

The inevitable interdependencies and trade-offs between structural and daylight disciplines are rarely researched in multi-disciplinary design simulation and optimisation. As such, this paper presents a development of simulations of co-evolutionary design processes used for optimisation. The simulations entail an iterative process to delete or split spaces of a Building Spatial Design (BSD) according to its structural or daylight performance. Three types of co-evolutionary processes are investigated, i.e. (i) spatial-structural; (ii) spatial-daylight; and (iii) alternately (i) and (ii). Besides, an academic case study is carried out, where a variety of window sizes is considered while performing structural and daylight simulations. As a result, the general tendencies for structural and daylight objectives, their trade-offs, and the conflicts between optimising for structural or daylight performance are showcased. Furthermore, it is noted that co-evolutionary design simulations, if used for optimisation, show large improvements in just a few iterations.

  • Item type:Book Section
    ID code:93239
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    1 July 2025
    Published
    9 June 2025
    Accepted
    Subjects:Fine Arts > Architecture
    Department:Faculty of Engineering > Architecture
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:27 Jun 2025 09:33
    Last modified:01 Aug 2026 00:16
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/93239
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