Buildings,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14(12), P. 3898 - 3898
Published: Dec. 5, 2024
Due
to
climate
change,
enhancing
outdoor
and
indoor
thermal
comfort
is
increasingly
important.
Solar
radiation
drives
temperature
increases,
making
solar
exposure
reduction
essential
in
urban
design.
Most
previous
research
has
focused
on
parametric
analysis
optimize
small
blocks,
often
overlooking
the
impact
of
overall
district
(UD)
reducing
Radiation
Access
(SRA).
This
work
aims
find
optimized
UD
minimize
SRA
maximize
Floor
Area
(FA).
The
proposed
methodology
developed
achieve
these
objective
functions
using
a
single-objective
Genetic
Algorithm
(GA)
with
three
street
layout
patterns:
random,
radial,
grid
layout.
Further
conducted
at
block
level,
focusing
blocks
highest
further
while
maintaining
same
FA.
Dubai
Silicon
Oasis
UAE
was
selected
as
case
study.
Elk2-0.3.1
(GIS
data),
Ladybug
(1.7.0),
DeCodingSpaces-Toolbox
(2021.10),
Galapagos
(1.0.0007)
Plugins
Grasshopper
(0.9.0076)
were
used.
results
show
that
radial
pattern
achieved
better
an
8.4%
8.9%
increase
Additional
can
additional
7.4%
SRA.
