Self-Energy Harvesting through Architectural Design: Harnessing embodied energy in the Human Environment.

Abstract

This research is conducted in searching for the energy related to Architectural design that is generated from human activities as well as cultural or human life patterns. So the paper provides a review of the current self-energy harvesting literature including the discussion about the research of energy that is potentially related to the architectural design that can produce energy through the self-energy harvester concept including the widely used methodologies, new materials and technologies, and human daily activities in the building that related the potential energy harvesting. The contributions of this work to the study of architectural design are as follows. First, this study presents a clear description of the current self-energy harvester research situation and its development. Second, this research gives more and clearer opportunities in the future to generate energy through Architectural design. Third, this study clarifies the topics and problems in self-energy harvesting that need further studies based on a comprehensive review on existed pieces of literature and human behaviour analysis that can be used as energy sources. Though today's Architectural Design seems to be a bit far in self-energy harvesting, the energy is potentially harvested by Architectural Design. This research is expected to find out the intersection between Architectural design and self-energy harvesting engineering in a building concept and how it has been researched or applicated so far.