Evaluating Urban Forms for Comparison Studies in the Massing Design Stage
We introduce five performance indicators to facilitate the comparison of urban massingdesign in the early design stages. The five simple indicators are based on existing studies andcover three main performance areas that are sensitive to urban form changes: solar, ventilation,and connectivity potent...
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| author | Chen, Kian Norford, Leslie Keith |
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| description | We introduce five performance indicators to facilitate the comparison of urban massingdesign in the early design stages. The five simple indicators are based on existing studies andcover three main performance areas that are sensitive to urban form changes: solar, ventilation,and connectivity potentials. The first three indicators-the non-solar heated façade to floor areaindex, daylight façade to floor area index, and photovoltaics envelope to floor area index-measurethe solar potential. The frontal area index measures the ventilation potential and the route-directnessindex measures the connectivity potential. The indicators are simple to use, as they only requireurban geometry data for their calculation. We demonstrate the indicators in two case studies;variations in the values of these indicators show that they are sensitive to urban form changesand can be used in comparative studies to identify better performing urban forms among massingdesigns. We implement the indicators as an open-source Python library, Pyliburo, that designers andresearchers can readily access and integrate into their existing design workflows. Keywords:performance-based urban design; performance indicators; connectivity; urban ventilation; solar analysis |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1152252022-09-30T20:15:01Z Evaluating Urban Forms for Comparison Studies in the Massing Design Stage Chen, Kian Norford, Leslie Keith Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture Norford, Leslie Keith We introduce five performance indicators to facilitate the comparison of urban massingdesign in the early design stages. The five simple indicators are based on existing studies andcover three main performance areas that are sensitive to urban form changes: solar, ventilation,and connectivity potentials. The first three indicators-the non-solar heated façade to floor areaindex, daylight façade to floor area index, and photovoltaics envelope to floor area index-measurethe solar potential. The frontal area index measures the ventilation potential and the route-directnessindex measures the connectivity potential. The indicators are simple to use, as they only requireurban geometry data for their calculation. We demonstrate the indicators in two case studies;variations in the values of these indicators show that they are sensitive to urban form changesand can be used in comparative studies to identify better performing urban forms among massingdesigns. We implement the indicators as an open-source Python library, Pyliburo, that designers andresearchers can readily access and integrate into their existing design workflows. Keywords:performance-based urban design; performance indicators; connectivity; urban ventilation; solar analysis 2018-05-03T19:07:39Z 2018-05-03T19:07:39Z 2017-06 2017-05 2018-05-01T18:24:42Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2071-1050 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115225 Chen, Kian and Leslie Norford. “Evaluating Urban Forms for Comparison Studies in the Massing Design Stage.” Sustainability 9, 6 (June 2017): 987 © 2017 Authors https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5631-7256 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/SU9060987 Sustainability Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf MDPI AG MDPI |
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| title | Evaluating Urban Forms for Comparison Studies in the Massing Design Stage |
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