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Risk of incorrect choices due to uncertainty in BPS evaluations of conceptual-stage neighbourhood-scale building designs

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore, Minu Agarwal

At the conceptual stage, building performance simulation (BPS) based evaluations are being increasingly used for tasks such as ranking of competing massing design proposals. However, such conceptual stage evaluations suffer from information deficiency in b ...

2023

The influence of façade and space design on building occupants’ indoor experience

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore

Existing research on user’s satisfaction at the workplace have shown that occupants’ perceived comfort depends on a number of environmental and non-environmental factors and that forgiveness, meant as the indulgent attitude towards inadequate indoor enviro ...

2022

Reliability of daylight and energy demand evaluations for decision making at the conceptual design stage of neighborhood design

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore, Minu Agarwal, Gérald Maurice Claude Danseux

When conducting building performance simulation (BPS) at the early design stage, potential impact on design decisions is the greatest. However, the reliability of evaluations resulting from early design stage BPS models may suffer given that building attri ...

2019

Reliability of Daylight and Energy Demand Evaluations for Decision Making at the Conceptual Stage of Neighbourhood Design

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore, Minu Agarwal

When conducting building performance simulation (BPS) at the early design stage, potential impact on design decisions is the greatest. However, the reliability of evaluations resulting from early design stage BPS models may suffer given that building attri ...

INT BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION ASSOC-IBPSA2019

Building energy certification versus user satisfaction with the indoor environment: Findings from a multi-site post-occupancy evaluation (POE) in Switzerland

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore

Voluntary green-rating systems exist in different forms worldwide to certify the sustainability of residential and commercial buildings and help national policies promote energy-efficient design practices. Despite the general assumption that sustainable bu ...

2019

Detecting trends and further development potential of contemporary façade design for workspaces

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore

Façade design is claimed to fulfil a number of requirements in workplaces, ranging from privacy to safety and from comfort to aesthetics. For future R&D efforts in façade design, identifying the key drivers that should shape contemporary facades in office ...

2019

Comfort, climatic background and adaptation time: first insights from a post-occupancy evaluation in multicultural workplaces

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore

One of the effects of globalization and work mobility is the increasing multiculturalism in the workplace. While contemporary design policies for energy efficiency and comfort regulations are moving towards the adoption of models customized for local commu ...

NCEUB 20182018

A field study investigation on the influence of light level on subjective thermal perception in different seasons

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Luisa Pastore, Giorgia Chinazzo

This paper evaluates the influence of light levels (i.e., illuminance) on subjective thermal perception of people, distinguishing between thermal sensation and thermal evaluation. The goal is to investigate whether reported effects found by other studies i ...

NCEUB 20182018

Influence of façade details on early design decisions regarding daylight performance of neighborhoods

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore, Minu Agarwal

Neighborhood form and building facade design are key drivers of indoor daylight performance. Architectural design at the neighborhood scale starts with massing scheme proposals and other design specifications including façade design are typically enriched ...

2018

Suitability of neighborhood-scale massing models for daylight performance evaluation

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore, Minu Agarwal

Access to daylight in buildings is the combined effect of a building’s own physical attributes along with its surrounding physical context. There is thus growing interest among researchers to extend the use of building performance simulation (BPS) tools fo ...

2017