Increasingly strict energy policies, rising energy prices, and a desire for a positive corporate image currently serve as incentives for multinational corporations to reduce their plants’ energy consumption. This paper quantitatively investigates and discusses the value of a traditional north-light roof using a complete building energy simulation and optimization framework. The findings indicat...

Abstract The skylight on the roof of an atrium can be popular for commercial malls to illuminate core area building. However, solar radiation and its heat get into building together with daylight, causing excessive cooling load. This paper studies daylighting energy performances coverage air-conditioned atriums in hot humid regions. performance different heights, glass types ratios are studied....

The most important feature in urban modeling is the 3D building model. It is essential in many applications, such as 3D GIS, cyber city, true-orthophoto generation, etc. Due to the huge demand of 3D building model, an effective solution for geometrical building modeling is required. In this paper, a 3D building modeling based on the Split-Merge-Shape (SMS) algorithm is presented. Since the SMS ...

with speed increasing in high-speed trains, due to limitations of other types of brakes, aerodynamic brake has become an important braking method. in this task to make better use of brake’s panel different configurations are examined and the best panel shape which provides the reasonable drag coefficient is introduced. the results of simulations are carried out with the computational fluid dyna...

Remotely sensed images with a pixel size of about 1 m can nowadays be acquired by airborne scanners and in the near future also by high resolution satellites. With such a high spatial resolution, remotely sensed data of urban areas can resolve structures like a roof into the different surface segments with different inclinations, e.g. in the case of a gabled roof. We have measured the BRDF (Bid...

We introduce the isogeometric shape optimisation of thin shell structures using subdivision surfaces. Both triangular Loop and quadrilateral Catmull-Clark subdivision schemes are considered for geometry modelling and finite element analysis. A gradientbased shape optimisation technique is implemented to minimise compliance, i.e. to maximise stiffness. Different control meshes describing the sam...

Influenced by educational policies and newly emerging philosophies, the proportion of public space is expanding in primary secondary schools China. Consequently, atrium school design increasingly drawing attention due to consideration efficiency its accommodability for diverse activities. Although many studies have already explored daylighting performance atriums, particularities are rarely not...

The article presents a cartographic generalisation approach for 3D building models with regard to the thematic visualisation of urban landscapes. Based on our earlier work to utilise approximating planes for generating simplified cell decompositions of the input objects, a new extension is introduced that guarantees well-formed roof structures. This is accomplished by first creating a simplifie...

According to the energy crisis in the world, optimization of energy consumption is indispensable. Technological advances in constructions and application of renewable energy resources demand saving energy. Atrium, as one of the construction elements, catches sufficient daylight and acts as a passive solar element and results in a decline of energy consumption. This research seeks to evalu...