Zapata-Lancaster, Gabriela  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3239-131X and Tweed, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7656-6460
2016.
Tools for low-energy building design: an exploratory study of the design process in action.
Architectural Engineering and Design Management
12
(4)
, pp. 279-295.
10.1080/17452007.2016.1178627
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Abstract
Building designers face increased pressure to design low-energy buildings. Consequently, there is a growing interest in providing computational support for low-energy design via building performance simulation. This article presents an ethnographic study that investigated the design process of five low-energy buildings in England and Wales. The study was informed by design science literature and phenomenology of technology. The investigation analysed the methods deployed by designers to embed low-energy performance during design problem-solving. The findings illustrate how experience-based methods and simulation tools were used to inform low-energy building design. The work identified some of the challenges faced by designers to incorporate simulation methodologies during a routine design process. It illustrates the status of simulation tools as boundary objects that mediate the communication and negotiation between design team members. The work advocates considering the design problem-solving patterns and preferences in the development and improvement of support methods for low-energy design.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Architecture |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > NA Architecture |
| Additional Information: | This paper is published under the terms of the CC-BY licence. |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 1745-2007 |
| Funders: | Building Research Establishment PhD studentship |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 11 July 2016 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 12 April 2016 |
| Last Modified: | 05 May 2023 00:40 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/92414 |
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