A web dashboard to support early design decisions to meet energy goals

Abstract

This work demonstrates the achievements of a dashboard, in development, devised to support energy performance design decisions during pre-design and sketch design phases of office buildings in tropical climates. The interface is structured on principles of energetics in design to meet goals, adapted to systemic and collaborative design processes. It is compatible with design timing during early design phases, enabling browsing a vast thermal zone characteristic combinations and instantaneously quantifying cooling loads using Brazilian labeling metamodel. The dashboard has been tested in academic architectural design studios. The dashboard outputs help show design spaces for different restrictions and find specific solutions