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Module 7 - Study Your Options
Maximum Solar Insulation Preferred Design Option:
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Step 1 - Generative Design Framework
Design decisions of interest:
- Optimizing Solar Insolation for an Elliptical Building
- Design Variables
- Building and Story Heights
- Floor Depths / Radii
- Floor Rotations
- Number of Levels
- Evaluators
- Solar Insolation
- Area / Floor Area
- Aesthetics
- Total Cost
- Most Important Tradeoffs to Consider
- Floor area
- Aesthetics
- Building & Floor Height
- Total Cost
- Evaluation of Span-to-Depth Ratios
- Design Variables
- Floor / Beam Span-to-Depth Ratios
- Evaluators
- Maximum Span
- Minimum Floor / Beam Depths
- Total Cost
- Most Important Tradeoffs to Consider
- Total Cost
- Floor / Beam Depths
- Optimizing a Truss Layout
- Design Variables
- Truss Span
- Truss Depth/Height
- Number of Joints
- Truss Form
- Evaluators
- Truss Weight
- Number of Joints
- Total Cost
- Most Important Tradeoffs to Consider
- Total Cost
- Safety / Stability
- Weight
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Step 2 - Generative Design Study
- Optimizing the solar insolation of an elliptical building by exploring the impact of an elliptical building form rotation, floor depth and height on the insolation potential of the wall surfaces.
- Using number sliders and code blocks for design variables, the number of levels; floor and building heights; top and bottom rotations and, floor radii are used to generate a coordinate system and elliptical floors at parametric Z story heights.
- The building cost, floor surface areas, volume and solar insolation are generated using SurfaceArea / Volume and SolarAnalysis nodes.
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Step 3 - Generative Design Study Results
- Design Trade-off
- The selected design option is the third option for maximum insolation, maximises floor area and considers floor rotations for aesthetics, while the building total cost and height are the trad-offs.
