Highlighting the Necessity of Study on Post-Occupancy Evaluation for Climate Adaptive Building Shells and Review of Current Developments (original) (raw)

CONFERENCE OF CITIES IN A CHANGING WORLD: QUESTIONS OF CULTURE, CLIMATE AND DESIGN, 2021

Abstract

In today's world sustainability and the energy consumption is without a doubt, one of the most critical issues in any field and field of architecture is not exceptional. Buildings as one of the big human footprints in the natural environment are playing a significant role in achieving the general goal of sustainability in cities. Among building components, building shells are the essential elements for accomplishing the mentioned goal. But due to the static conventional construction methods, during time achieving this goal has been difficult. Thus, designing a building shell which can answer the user's need, and reducing energy consumption is a complicated task. One of the proposed alternatives for building shell design in digital age, by the possibilities that technology developments can provide in this era, is Climate Adaptive Building Shells (CABS). Based on many studies documented in the literature, this system is offering solutions for reducing energy consumption and improving the building performance. But to achieve the ultimate sustainability, just concentrating on energy issue is not enough, and the user's satisfaction is another crucial point. In the study, it has been tried to discuss the need for focusing on this aspect of research. In this manner, the study is highlighting lack of investigation on Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) for Climate Adaptive Building Shells. In all sectors, evaluating the product after it is in use has an important place. This evaluation has even extra importance in the digital area, since due to technological and digital developments user’s expectations are higher. But in the building sector, there is a lack of interest and concern for going back to the designs and evaluating it after occupation. This lack of interest brought us to the point that the sector is facing many buildings with the same mistakes; this fact can clarify the importance of POE. As mentioned before, the lack of research on POE for CABS is even more significant and needs extra attention. In the second part of the study, it has been tried to find out all the developments and proposed conceptual models related to POE and CABS to give the broader perspective on the current situation of the field. To sum up, this review based study which is part of the more comprehensive ongoing PhD study is highlighting the need to focus on POE for CABS by using PRISMA methodology. After clearing the lack of literature research, it has been tried to gather and review all the developments, proposals and models related to the same topic to explain the current situation of this research area.

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