Design Journal Entry - Module 4

Your Design Journal entries for this module should highlight:

• the design alternatives that you modeled and tested
• the results of the analyses and how they influenced your thinking about how to move forward

Use text , images, web links, movies... Whatever media works best to express your ideas!

For 2 or 3 units

• Create and share a Psychometric chart for your project location.
• Test 2 different alternative conceptual building forms using:
• Insight analysis to predict the energy performance each of the forms
• Solar insolation analysis to predict the solar radiation on the surfaces of the forms
• Post images of the design alternatives that you modeled and the results of the analyses
• Explain your reasoning and the tradeoffs that influenced your decision about which design option to move forward with

For 4 units

• Given the conceptual form that you’ll be carrying forward, use Insight to determine the most important factors and their values that could deliver these performance thresholds:
• Architecture 2030
• Net Zero (if possible) or the best performance reasonably achievable