From solar constraints to urban design opportunities: Optimization of built form typologies in a Brazilian tropical city

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 76, Issue , 2014, Pages 43-56

  A l Martins, Tathiane ^a   Adolphe, Luc ^b   E g Bastos, Leopoldo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSA   (France)

Author keywords

Constrained optimization; DOE analysis; Genetic algorithms; Solar potential; Tropical climate; Urban morphology

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CODES; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR ENERGY; TROPICS;

DAYLIGHT AVAILABILITY; DOE ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SOLAR POTENTIAL; TROPICAL CLIMATES; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 84896987616     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.02.056     Document Type: Article

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