Sustainable urban block design through passive architecture: A tool that uses urban geometry optimization to compute energy savings

PLEA 2009 - Architecture Energy and the Occupant's Perspective: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Morello, Eugenio ^a,b   Gori, Virginia ^c   Balocco, Carla ^c   Ratti, Carlo ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Daylighting; Digital elevation models; Sustainable urban design; Urban morphology

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING; BLOCK DESIGNS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ENERGY CONTRIBUTION; FORMAL DESIGN; HEATING ENERGY CONSUMPTION; INDOOR SPACE; INITIAL STAGES; NEIGHBOURHOOD; PASSIVE ARCHITECTURE; SOLAR GAIN; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY; TOTAL ENERGY BALANCE; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN FABRICS; URBAN GEOMETRY; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DAYLIGHTING; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84855604355     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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