scholarly journals Generating Residential Layout Based on AI in the View of Wind Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 2069 (1) ◽  
pp. 012061
Author(s):  
X Y Ying ◽  
X Y Qin ◽  
J H Chen ◽  
J Gao
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Wind Environment ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Prediction Function ◽  
Optimization Function ◽  
Plot Ratio ◽  
Area Development

Abstract There is a contradiction between the high-density residential area development form and comfortable outdoor physical environment. The existing studies on wind environment of high-rise residential areas only provide the guidance for the simple general layouts, which cannot cope with the fact that most high-rise residential areas are mixed of point buildings and board buildings, and it would cost a lot of time and resources to carry out computer simulation of each layout. This paper presents a new tool, which uses the automatic optimization function of genetic algorithm and the prediction function of fully convolutional neural network to integrates three functions: the automatic generation of high-rise residential layout, the simulation of wind environment and the comparison for optimization, to learn plan scheduling and obtain the optimal solution for high-rise residential layout under specific plot ratio and plot conditions, provides guidance for today’s fast-paced architectural design.

Yunan Typical Courtyard Type Wind Environmental Analysis - Zhu Zigui Courtyard, for Example

2014 ◽  
Vol 641-642 ◽  
pp. 1117-1120
Author(s):  
Yan Shi ◽  
Ying Fan
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Natural Ventilation ◽  
Ventilation Mode ◽  
Cold Winter ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Wind Environment ◽  
Winter Climate ◽  
Reducing Energy

Use natural ventilation in buildings is one of the most important energy-saving means of reducing energy consumption. Natural ventilation is use of pressure or heat to achieve natural ventilation effect, has the advantages of energy-efficient, clean, and is a relatively healthy ventilation mode. This study on wind environment in residential areas of Henan base, exploring hot-summer and cold-winter climate on buildings build the role of development, climate influence architectural design concept.

scholarly journals Pedestrian-Level Wind Environment Assessment of Shenyang’s Residential Areas through Numerical Simulations

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 380
Author(s):  
Jiuhong Zhang ◽  
Xiaoqian Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
The South ◽  
Wind Environment ◽  
South Side ◽  
High Rise ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
Typical Layout

In recent decades, increasing urbanization has increased construction land shortages, which has made people pay more attention to the utilization of vertical space. The emergence of more and more high-rise buildings has affected the wind environment at the pedestrian level, especially in residential areas. In this research, the typical patterns of the layouts of residential buildings in Shenyang were investigated and summarized, and the wind environment of the residential areas of different architecture layouts was simulated according to the climatic conditions in Shenyang. After analyzing the simulation results, a typical layout mode for the residential areas in Shenyang was developed to facilitate the establishment of a favorable wind environment. In comparison with different building layouts, a staggered layout of slab buildings, half-enclosed layout of point buildings with openings on the south side, slab-point combined buildings with slab buildings on the north side, and point buildings on the south side were found to be the most suitable layouts for Shenyang’s climate. Thus, this study can provide guidance to designers and urban planners in addition to practical suggestions for residential planning.

scholarly journals A Quantitative Method for Evaluation of Visual Privacy in Residential Environments

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 272
Author(s):  
He Zheng ◽  
Bo Wu ◽  
Heyi Wei ◽  
Jinbiao Yan ◽  
Jianfeng Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
High Density ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Visual Exposure ◽  
Building Management ◽  
Visual Privacy ◽  
Building Level

With the rapid expansion of high-rise and high-density buildings in urban areas, visual privacy has become one of the major concerns affecting human environmental quality. Evaluation of residents’ visual exposure to outsiders has attracted more attention in the past decades. This paper presents a quantitative indicator; namely, the Potential Visual Exposure Index (PVEI), to assess visual privacy by introducing the damage of potential visual incursion from public spaces and neighborhoods in high-density residences. The method for computing the PVEI mainly consists of three steps: extracting targets and potential observers in a built environment, conducting intervisibility analysis and identifying visible sightlines, and integrating sightlines from building level and ground level to compute the PVEI value of each building opening. To validate the proposed PVEI, a case study with a sample building located at the center of Kowloon, Hong Kong, was evaluated. The results were in accordance with the common-sense notion that lower floors are subjected to poor visual privacy, and privacy is relatively well-preserved in upper floors in a building. However, residents of middle floors may suffer the worst circumstances with respect to visual privacy. The PVEI can be a useful indicator to assess visual privacy and can provide valuable information in architectural design, hotel room selection, and building management.

scholarly journals An Overview of High-Rise Buildings in Jakarta since 1967 to 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 933 (1) ◽  
pp. 012001
Author(s):  
M F Effendi ◽  
I F Ridzqo ◽  
S W Dharmatanna
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Urban Habitat ◽  
Design Development ◽  
High Rise ◽  
High Rise Building ◽  
Environmentally Safe ◽  
Construction Knowledge

Abstract High-rise buildings in big cities are crucial for business, economic, educational, residential, and entertainment activities in recent times. The technology discoveries in various fields that support high-rise building construction such as structure, mechanical, electrical, and materials have opened up opportunities for comfortable and environmentally safe architectural work. The first milestone of high-rise building construction knowledge in Indonesia was the completion of the thirteen-floors Sarinah retail building in 1967. Indonesia, especially in Jakarta, then experienced rapid growth of high-rise buildings construction. However, there is limited research on the development of high-rise building designs in Indonesia, especially from an architectural design perspective. It leads to the lack of literature on high-rise building design in Indonesia. By utilizing a publicly accessible database from the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and recent literature called Designing Tall Building by Mark Sarkisian, this paper explores the design development of high-rise buildings in Jakarta from time to time in the aspects of architecture, structure and sustainability.

High-concentration time–frequency analysis for multi-component nonstationary signals based on combined multi-window Gabor transform

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Chen Meng ◽  
Cheng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Iteration Process ◽  
Perfect Reconstruction ◽  
Gabor Transform ◽  
Zak Transform ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Nonstationary Signals ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Optimization Function

PurposeThis study aims to reveal the essential characteristics of nonstationary signals and explore the high-concentration representation in the joint time–frequency (TF) plane.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, the authors consider the effective TF analysis for nonstationary signals consisting of multiple components.FindingsTo make it, the authors propose the combined multi-window Gabor transform (CMGT) under the scheme of multi-window Gabor transform by introducing the combination operator. The authors establish the completeness utilizing the discrete piecewise Zak transform and provide the perfect-reconstruction conditions with respect to combined TF coefficients. The high-concentration is achieved by optimization. The authors establish the optimization function with considerations of TF concentration and computational complexity. Based on Bergman formulation, the iteration process is further analyzed to obtain the optimal solution.Originality/valueWith numerical experiments, it is verified that the proposed CMGT performs better in TF analysis for multi-component nonstationary signals.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Wind Environment to Improve the Thermal Comfort in the Colonnade Space of a Qilou Street Based on the Relative Warmth Index

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 4402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianfeng Huang ◽  
Zhen Lu ◽  
Zhixiang Zhuang
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Thermal Environment ◽  
Transitional Space ◽  
Wind Environment ◽  
Warmth Index ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Building Components ◽  
Computational Fluid Dynamics Cfd

By analyzing measurements of the thermal environment of a qilou (arcade building) street, this study used the relative warmth index (RWI) to evaluate the thermal comfort in the colonnade space of a qilou. The analysis of the influence of the temperature, humidity, and wind speed on the thermal comfort in the colonnade space of a qilou street was conducted, and it was shown that the ambient wind speed had a strong influence on the RWI, indicating that a proper increase in the wind speed positively affected thermal comfort in this space. Then, this study also analyzed the effects of different forms of qilou streets on the wind environment by employing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and summarized the architectural design measures that can improve the thermal comfort, including adopting back chamfer, street gaps, and the appropriate sizing of building components. It was concluded that the wind environment of a qilou could be optimized in terms of these measures, and the average RWI value decreased by 0.06, effectively enhancing the thermal comfort in the colonnade space. The research findings are applicable toward designing a thermally comfortable environment in the transitional space.

scholarly journals Assessing the Solar Radiation Quantity of High-Rise Residential Areas in Typical Layout Patterns: A Case in North-East China

Buildings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Ming Lu ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Jun Xing ◽  
Wenda Ma
Keyword(s):  
Solar Radiation ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Building Roof ◽  
High Rise ◽  
North East ◽  
High Solar Radiation ◽  
Typical Layout ◽  
The Relationship

With the development of energy-saving and emission-reduction, solar energy as a clean energy with excellent characteristics has bright prospects for development and application in residential environment with high energy consumption. With the intensification of land use, there are more and more high-rise residential areas in the city. If the residential construction becomes more compact, the solar radiation of the buildings will be in loss. Therefore, there may exist some restrictive relationship between the residential layout patterns and the solar radiation quantity. Through the multiple response frequency analysis method of SPSS, the study summarizes three typical high-rise residential layout patterns, which are parallel determinant, non-parallel determinant and three-sided enclosure. The Autodesk Ecotect is used to simulate the solar radiation quantity of each building roof and south facade. Last, obtain the relationship between the residential layout index and the solar radiation quantity. The results show that there actually exists certain correlativity between solar radiation quantity and floor area ratio, building density and building height; meanwhile, each annual solar radiation quantity changed by residential layout index has its own variable curve. The results also indicate that three-sided enclosure layout pattern has greater solar radiation potential than parallel determinant and non-parallel determinant. By summarizing the corresponding conclusions, the optimal mode of high-rise settlements with high solar radiation is explored, which can provide reference for further residential planning.

STRUCTURAL AND GEOTECHNICAL DESIGN OF A HIGH-RISE BUILDING USING A 3D BIM GENERATED MODEL

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Romaih ◽  
Sama Taha ◽  
Mina Naguib ◽  
Salma Ibrahim ◽  
Youssef Halabi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
High Water ◽  
Building Site ◽  
American University ◽  
High Rise ◽  
High Rise Building ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Geotechnical Design ◽  
Graduation Project ◽  
Full Design

This paper presents the work performed by an undergraduate student group at the American University in Cairo as a first phase of their graduation project that mimics a state-of-the-art industrial experience in structural and geotechnical design of a high-rise building using building information model (BIM). A 3-D BIM was developed for the structure and used to generate an analytical model which is exported to a structural numerical analysis program, followed by a full design of the building elements and foundation. The considered building is 218 m high, in which the architectural design requires a successive 2-degrees twist per floor through the building height, resulting in a total twist of 80 degrees between the first and last floors. The architect also retracted the slabs every six stories from a group of columns, leaving 24 m-height laterally unsupported peripheral columns. As such, the vertical and horizontal building irregularities present challenges in the structural modeling and design and requires thorough analyses, particularly for seismic and wind considerations. Due to the high water table at the building site and the existence of a 12.5 underground basement, a special dewatering technique was proposed, along with the full tanking design consideration of the building basement.

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