Unified Energy-based Qualitative Representation for Building Analysis

ISBN-13: 9783639165470 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 188 str.

Jerry Jen-Hung Tsai; John S. Gero

Opis

Currently, when designers develop a building designproject, different representations are used for different buildingsubsystems, such as spatial system, electrical system, lighting system,hydraulic system and HVAC. These representations are mainly used in thefinal design documentation stage. This book presents a qualitativeapproach to the development of a unified energy-based representationfor building analysis called qualitative Archi Bond Graphs(QABGs). QABGs integrate different representations in the architectural domaininto a unified representation. They can be applied in theconceptual, intermediate, and final building design stages. Combining graphicalrepresentations and qualitative equations, QABGs are applicable forbuilding simulation and analysis for building dynamics in thespace-people system and the building energy systems, and for energy interactionsbetween the space-people system and the building energy systems.

O autorze

Dr Jerry Tsai is a researcher in design computing. His research
interests include
architecture representation, interactive space and design
collaboration. Prof. John Gero
is a Research Professor at the Krasnow Institute, USA. He was
Co-Director of the Key
Centre of Design Computing and Cognition at the University of
Sydney, Australia.