Rifat Tabassoom

  The project was aimed to develop an efficient facade system for buildings in a specific climate to provide enough shading while ensuring necessary daylight in the building floors.  The process was divided into two phases. The 1st phase concerns with the selection of optimized area and location for shading surface and the 2nd phase was focused to develop an efficient shading pattern on the surface.  Phase 1: For this experiment, a simple cylindrical building was developed with 10 floors. The shading surface was generated from the curvature of the building mass. The area and the location of the shading surface can be changed. Also, the offset distance of the surface from the floors can also be changed.  A Genetic Algorithmic tool Galapagos was used for the optimization process. The "Genome" or parameter input is shown in the picture below.  For the "Fitness" or the performance evaluation, the Solar Irradiance (kW/m2) metric was used. The goal was to minimize the ir