Toolbox for super-structured and super-structure free multi-disciplinary building spatial design optimisation

Boonstra, S.; Blom, K. van der; Hofmeyer, H.; Emmerich, M.T.M.; Schijndel, J. van; Wilde, P. de (2018)

Article / Letter to editor

Multi-disciplinary optimisation of building spatial designs is characterised by large solution spaces. Here two approaches are introduced, one being super-structured and the other super-structure free. Both are different in nature and perform differently for large solution spaces and each requires its own representation of a building spatial design, which are also presented here. A method to combine the two approaches is proposed, because the two are prospected to supplement each other. Accordingly a toolbox is presented, which can evaluate the structural and thermal performances of a building spatial design to provide a user with the means to define optimisation procedures. A demonstration of the toolbox is given where the toolbox has been used for an elementary implementation of a simulation of co-evolutionary design processes. The optimisation approaches and the toolbox that are presented in this paper will be used in future efforts for research into- and development of optimisation methods for multi-disciplinary building spatial design optimisation.

• Building optimisation
• Multi-disciplinary optimisation
• Super-structures
• Structural design
• Building physics

• All authors: Boonstra, S.; Blom, K. van der; Hofmeyer, H.; Emmerich, M.T.M.; Schijndel, J. van; Wilde, P. de
• Date: 2018-03-20
• Journal: Advanced Engineering Informatics
• Volume: 36
• Pages: 86 - 100
• DOI: doi:10.1016/j.aei.2018.01.003