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ARCH 653 Project 2

ARCH 653 Project 2

1. Objective

This project aims to perform daylighting analyses for Lotte World Tower spaces. The change in parameters of the building facade can result in different daylighting effects. LEED version 4 defines that sDA (spatial daylight autonomy) represents how much of space receives sufficient daylight and it should be over 75. So, this project changes the width of curtain panel windows and analyzes the following daylight factors.


2. Facade Design

The curtain panel chosen for this project is shown in the below figure. 
It has shading walls on each side. The width of the shading walls can be changed parametrically. The middle part is composed of windows. The panel was then placed on the facade of the model.



3. Dynamo - Daylight Analysis

The project used the Honeybee tool to analyze daylighting. For the analysis, Revit 2019 and Dynamo version 1.3.3 or lower are required since the tool hasn't been updated yet for Revit 2020 and Dynamo 2.0.

The tool also doesn't recognize curtain panels as walls or windows and regards it as empty space. Therefore, this project needed to change the method for analyzing daylight to consider the curtain panels.

The conceptual framework for the alternative method is shown below.
The project used machine learning to train daylighting values based on various window sizes.
The trained machine learning then predicted daylighting values based on curtain panel window sizes.


To perform daylighting analysis with the tool, the curtain panels were replaced with simple windows. 


Original Curtain Panels

Replaced Windows for Machine Learning Training



The replaced windows had the same size of window that the curtain panel has.

The below figure shows the geometry for training. 




These are the dynamo node to perform daylighting analysis.



An example of daylighting analysis result is shown below. The color represents how many hours of space receives sufficient daylighting. (Red color means a spot receives sufficient daylighting over 50% of annual occupied hours)



 The daylighting analysis results with different locations and different window sizes were stored in the excel sheet. The different locations will further allow machine learning to predict daylighting at different locations of the building.

4. Dynamo - Machine Learning

 Dynamo loads the excel file created in the previous step. The data are then normalized for Neural Networks training.



The normalized data are then loaded into Neural Networks.



5. Dynamo - Final Outcome

Finally, the machine learning model can predict daylighting values based on different curtain panel window sizes and building locations.


 6. Video Presentation






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