scholarly journals Characterizing Students’ Design Strategies During Simulation-based Engineering of Sustainable Buildings

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tugba Karabiyik ◽  
Alejandra Magana ◽  
Paul Parsons ◽  
Ying Ying Seah
Keyword(s):  
Design Strategies ◽  
Sustainable Buildings ◽  
Simulation Based

Exploration on Regional Ecological Architecture Design — Taking the Design of Houji Jiaojia Garden Exhibition as an Example

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 3111-3114
Author(s):  
Liao Liao Xi ◽  
Hu Peng ◽  
Lin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Architecture Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Sustainable Buildings ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Ecological Architecture

In recent decades, sustainable buildings have been increasingly concerned, architects, teachers and college students are involved into a number of theoretical and practical exploration. A variety of sustainable building design strategies and cases spring up. Taking Houji Jiaojia garden agricultural exhibition pavilion design as an example, on the basis of exhausting analysis of the local climate, geographical conditions, it focuses particularly on the use of local ecological straw materials in the building to achieve the sustainability of the project, which can provide some reference for the current and future sustainable architectural design.

A nearest-neighbor algorithm for targeted interaction design in social outreach campaigns

Kybernetes ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 1243-1256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Design ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Positive Response ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Response Rates ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Solution Approach ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Social Outreach

Purpose Organizations rely on social outreach campaigns to raise financial support, recruit volunteers, and increase public awareness. In order to maximize response rates, organizations face the challenging problem of designing appropriately tailored interactions for each user. An interaction consists of a specific combination of message, media channel, sender, tone, and possibly many other attributes. The purpose of this paper is to address the problem of how to design tailored interactions for each user to maximize the probability of a desired response. Design/methodology/approach A nearest-neighbor (NN) algorithm is developed for interaction design. Simulation-based experiments are then conducted to compare positive response rates obtained by two forms of this algorithm against that of several control interaction design strategies. A factorial experimental design is employed which varies three user population factors in a combinatorial manner, allowing the methods to be compared across eight distinct scenarios. Findings The NN algorithms significantly outperformed all three controls in seven out of the eight scenarios. Increases in response rates ranging from approximately 20 to 400 percent were observed. Practical implications This work proposes a data-oriented method for designing tailored interactions for individual users in social outreach campaigns which can enable significant increases in positive response rates. Additionally, the proposed algorithm is relatively easy to implement. Originality/value The problem of optimal interaction design in social outreach campaigns is scarcely addressed in the literature. This work proposes an effective and easy to implement solution approach for this problem.

scholarly journals How to BREAK the Vicious Circle of blame? The contribution of different stakeholders to a more sustainable built environment

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Lützkendorf
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Vicious Circle ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Sustainable Buildings ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Market Transformation ◽  
The One ◽  
Sustainable Investments ◽  
Development Objectives

Putting the principles of sustainability into practice within social and economic development requires intensive involvement and participation of the construction, real estate and finance industries. It is necessary that design, construction and refurbishment of buildings are aligned with targets in energyefficiency, resource preservation, climate change and human health. On the one hand design strategies, design tools and construction techniques need further development, but the demand for sustainable buildings needs to increase also. For a long time market acceptance, market penetration and market transformation of sustainable buildings has been hampered by various obstacles and prejudices. This is now changing because of prove that sustainable buildings have economic advantages, because of social and environmental responsibility being increasingly accepted by all stakeholders, due to developments in law and standardisation as well as due to the example set by the public sector. The vicious circle of blame for low demand for sustainable buildings can therefore be broken. Positive change in the built environment can be brought about by various instruments (laws, standards, grant programmes, market stimulation programmes etc.) as wells as by creating connections between individual and institutional objectives with sustainable development objectives. For those investors interested in sustainable investments, sustainable real estate funds, green REITs can be offered as new investment alternatives. However, it is equally important to pay greater attention to the social and cultural importance of buildings. Topics such as the interdependence between buildings and life style choices and consumption patterns of building users, the role of buildings within a neighbourhood and urban development, the need to provide adequate accommodation and to create and preserve jobs can also contribute to greater demand for sustainable buildings.

Exploration of Ecological Design Strategies and Technologies for the Floating Residences on Sea - A Case Study in the Xiapu Region of China

2013 ◽  
Vol 773 ◽  
pp. 819-824
Author(s):  
Zhi Xiong Yang ◽  
Yu Liu ◽  
Yan Di Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Ecological Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Sustainable Buildings ◽  
Fishing Villages ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Building Conservation ◽  
Traditional Fishing

With fast developing of economy and increasing shortage of resources, building conservation-type of societies and developing sustainable buildings become more and more necessary. With this background in mind, this paper investigates and discusses the ecological design of residence in the traditional offshore fishing villages in the coastal areas of southeast China. Taking Xiapu region in Fujian province as a case for the study, this paper first introduces the background of traditional fishing villages and fishermans floating houses at the region. Then, it discusses the advantages and disadvantages of such houses from design and utilization aspects. Finally, it explores and develops some specific strategies and technologies for the ecological design of new floating residence in the researched region, which can better accommodate local fishermens new needs of living, fish farming and leisure activities.

scholarly journals RIM DRIVEN PROPELLERS: OPTIMIZATION BASED DESIGN APPROACH USING RANS CALCULATIONS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Gaggero
Keyword(s):  
Permanent Magnets ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Multi Objective Optimization ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Cavitation Inception ◽  
Simulation Based Design ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Efficient Coupling ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
Optimization Loop

RIM driven propellers represent an unconventional, but underrated, propulsive solution which hydrodynamic design is still not obvious. In the last years, most of the attention has been devoted to the efficient coupling with electric motors, since only recently the development of permanent magnets allowed for the successful embedding of the driver directly inside the surrounding duct. From the hydrodynamic point of view, however, analysis and, in particular, design strategies are not yet ripe. In the light of the development of advanced design approaches for unconventional geometries, we propose a Simulation-Based Design Optimization tool based on RANS analyses of parametrically described geometries as a part of an automatic, multi-objective optimization loop. The SBDO is used to design a RIM driven propeller with an accelerating type duct, with improved performance simultaneously in terms both of efficiency and cavitation inception at different (design and quasi-bollard pull) functioning conditions.

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