YangShen- Module 6

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Module 6 - Evaluate Your Alternatives

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For 2 or More Units: Create Two New Evaluator Nodes

Images showing the node logic in your new evaluator nodes
Evaluate cost per sf

Evaluate Solar energy obtained per sf in mass floor

An Image/screenshot of your summary table (created in Word, Excel, Google Sheets, or any data table tool) showing the input values tested and the values computed for each of the reported parameters
Evaluate cost per sf

Evaluate Solar energy obtained per sf in mass floor

For 3 or More Units: Develop a Single-Objective Optimization Scheme

Brief descriptions outlining:

Your Single-Objective Optimization scheme (combination/comparison/ranking approach)

An Image/screenshot of your summary table (created in Word, Excel, Google Sheets, or any data table tool) showing the input values tested and the values computed for each of the reported parameters.

Be sure to highlight your top 3 recommended design alternatives (for either one the example building forms or the new building form that you designed) and recommend the one design that you consider to be the “best”.

An explanation of why you consider the recommended building form to be the “best” choice

For 4 Units: Visualize the Recommended Alternative

Images/screenshots showing the recommended building form based on your evaluation and analysis.

The small openings of the panels shows that the building can intake large solar energy during the year and therefore to reach a further improvement in green solution for buildings.

Your answers to the Points to Ponder questions for each stage of the assignment that you completed.

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Point to Ponder: Do the new evaluation metrics that you’ve designed capture the meaningful differences between the building form alternatives? What other metrics would be useful to compute to help understand and make the case for which alternatives are truly better than others?

Yes, they capture the meaningful differences between the building form alternatives.

Other metrics like lake view for the building will also be meaningful.

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Point to Ponder: What overall strategy do you feel best captures the relationship between the evaluation metrics? Clearly articulating your design strategy is the key aspect of this task. Before you dive into implementing your scheme, briefly describe your thinking and strategy in a paragraph that outlines your thinking and approach.

Well, the cost is the first priority, and then goes the solar energy efficiency per sf, the space efficiency is the last since Dubai has obviously enough space for that.

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Point to Ponder: What propelled the recommended alternative to the top of the list? Explain your reasoning -- include a brief analysis of why this alternative rose to the top of the list and why you consider it to be the best option. Are there important nuances or tradeoffs that got lost is the single evaluation?

This alternative has a relatively low cost under construction while the solar energy obtained per sf is high. This two metrics offer low construction and operation cost during the construction and after the building is finished.

Other aspects like the user experience (seeing the lake) is get lost in the single evaluation.