Multistory building envelope: Creative design and enhanced performance

摘要

The paper presents a comparative study of three strategies in the design of the building envelope of multistory residential buildings combining enhanced energy performance and architectural innovation. The first strategy, serving as base case, employs a high performance flat facade, applied to a building of square layout. The second strategy introduces multifaceted facade geometries, comprising plates of varying tilt angles, to the same building layout, in order to assess the impact of envelope geometry on energy performance. The third approach investigates the impact on energy performance of varying building layouts as applied to flat and multifaceted facades. British Columbia (Canada) serves as location of the study, representing northern climate conditions.