Potential Impact of using Building Performance Simulation in Urban Central Areas for Architecture And Urban Planning Design

AJMAT, RAÚL; SANDOVAL, J; LONGHINI, VICTORIA

Hyderabad

Conferencia; 14th Conference of IBPSA; 2015

IBPSA International Building Performance Simulation Association

Architecture and urban planning practice is on the front line directly applying best-case evidence-based solutions to take the most of conserving and generating energy. The excessive and inevitable growth of cities derived in high rise building in most of urban central areas. High rise buildings bring together: possibilities of high density housing, daylighting access limitations in low floors apartments and issues related with the exploitation of solar irradiation for renewable energies purposes.Today?s powerful building simulation tools can be leveraged for energy modeling during early design phases and even to shape tomorrow?s cities morphology. For further reductions in building energy consumption, energy simulations done during conceptual design has potential to impact long term energy use both in architecture and urban planning (Kamal et al, 2014). This paper reviews early conceptual high rise buildings design and their interaction with the immediate built environment looking at the consequences in terms of daylight availability and the potential of irradiation use for clean energy generation (IEA, 2006).