The objective of my prototypical tool is a user interface named Solar Radiation Response which can provide the inputs of data. The data involves the comfort zone(indoor temperature requirements), solar radiation(outdoor climatic conditions) and indoor activity which will affect the indoor temperature conditions and possibilities. Also, all three data are related to the building model’s geometry parameters, especially about the panel height on the canopy. This stage’s work is to further my original idea that is building envelope system can be kinetic and behavior responding to the outdoor climatic conditions and in turn may reduce the range of indoor temperature swings within great range of outdoor temperature swings. The decreases may offer promising energy savings compared with the mechanical air-conditioning system.
The process of this work involves the Solar Analysis plug-in, C# programming and Autodesk Revit API.
The Solar Analysis plug-in presents the model with the different levels’ solar radiation on the building envelope. Through this method, I can differentiate the each panel parameters of the building envelope into three levels: High, Middle and Low. After this, the Revit building model needs the update for linking the instance parameters and the project parameters which related to the high, middle and low solar radiation.
By using C#, each panel parameter of height can be filtered and set a new value related to a series of constrains, like seasons, indoor temperature and others, and provide the user interface as well. Note the filter command is from Autodesk Revit API.
To conclude, contemporary thinking in intelligent buildings, changing or kinetic architecture, digital interactive interface and biomimetic design has given rise to a new evolution of architecture. These works present me with the new insight into parametric design and kinetic buildings. In the context of sustainable needs, the BKE systems present the sustainable building research with a new approach of exchanges and communications with climate and local environments, especially in the locations with extreme climates. Moreover, the kinetic expression of building envelopes has been the sublime pursuit of contemporary architectural design in recent years. On balance, the parametric design method based on BIM and related sustainable design will be explored more in future.
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