Climate Responsive Form Finding
A Case of an Office Tower in a Hot & Dry Climate
2014 | Jadavpur University | Undergraduate Thesis Project
This architectural design thesis explores optimizing a glass tower’s form for heat gain, daylighting, and structural integrity. Employing a combination of spatial triangles, it evaluates various designs using Rhino, Grasshopper, DIVA, and Ecotect. The building’s geometry comprises 18 triangular faces with diverse orientations. Insolation calculations on each face inform shading system placement to enhance daylighting and mitigate heat gain. It uses a multi-objective evolutionary solver to optimize for incident solar radiation, surface volume ratio and daylighting factor.
Development of Fitness function through analysis of independent variables.
Structural development from the design options and its compliance to the National Building Code of India (NBC)
