A CLIMATE RESPONSIVE DESIGN TOOL TO PROMOTE PASSIVE AND LOW ENERGY DESIGN

摘要

This paper outlines an approach to integrated design that addresses many common challenges to incorporating passive and low energy design into new building projects. This approach, developed by the Pacific Northwest University Design Lab Network, focuses on synthesizing patterns of climate, patterns of use, and architectural and passive system design to minimize the primary energy loads of a building. This paper describes a novel design tool that can be used by designers to help them explicitly understand the energy savings potential and other implications of considering climate as a resource within the integrated design process. Specifically, it addresses the synthesis of patterns of climate with patterns of use and building design considerations, including both passive and active systems, to first reduce primary building energy loads and to then meet these loads with passive and low energy systems.