Building performance simulation has matured significantly in the recent decades. Increased accuracy and fidelity of simulations opened up many opportunities to develop better performance analysis tools, techniques, and metrics that can be employed throughout the different design stages. Computational approaches enable analysis with detail, flexibility, and rigor that may be infeasible or impossible to achieve with traditional analysis tools and techniques.

The objective of simulation based design research is to study the role of simulation throughout the design process and to foster analytical approaches in design synthesis and to promote informed design decision making through building performance simulation.

researchers: Mehlika Inanici

publications:
• 2009 Applications of Image based Rendering in Lighting Simulation: Development and Evaluation of Image based Sky Models •