CAREER: Immersive Architectural Daylighting Design Experience

职业：沉浸式建筑采光设计体验

• 批准号: 0845401
• 负责人: Barbara Cutler
• 金额: $ 47.98万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0845401&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Immersive; Architectural; Daylighting; Design

In this project the PI, building on her expertise in computer graphics, computational geometry, daylighting, and architectural design, will use computer graphics and daylight modeling to advance the science of architectural daylighting design, to promote the science and understanding of creativity in design, and to create innovative tools that allow designers to explore alternative designs and new technologies for improving the sustainability of their buildings. In particular, the PI will extend her prior results on efficient, interactive algorithms for qualitatively and quantitatively accurate interactive lighting simulation, to develop a "plug in" for global illumination and visualization that can be seamlessly incorporated into the early stages of design and that will work directly with meshes produced by commonly-used modeling programs. The new tool will be intended for use on a standard desktop computer by an experienced designer, who need not be an expert in daylighting technology or advanced graphical simulations. The PI will also develop, as a companion system, a full-scale, immersive environment in which multiple architectural designers, a designer and a client, or a teacher and student(s) can gather to experience animated visualizations of the natural illumination within a proposed design by controlling the time of day, the season, and the climate. Participants will also be able to interactively redesign the space, by changing the geometry and materials. This system will be developed and exhibited on the PI's campus in the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), leveraging the computational resources at the new Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI), two state-of-the-art facilities that are unique to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Broader Impacts: The tools to be developed in this project will incorporate fundamentally new interactive global illumination algorithms to solve for the challenging dynamic illumination conditions presented by daily and seasonal variations of the sun and sky. Techniques from the realm of parallel and distributed computing will be applied and extended, in order to facilitate online simulation and optimization during iterative architectural design. The architectural design process will thus become more effective and creative, enabling better exploitation of daylighting with a consequential reduction in the need for supplemental electric lighting, thereby leading to more energy-efficient building designs. The same framework will be applicable to other design problems that require complex physical simulation and visualization, including for example passive solar heating and cooling, acoustics, aerodynamic building envelopes, structural analysis, and general (non-architectural) design scenarios.

在这个项目中，PI以她在计算机图形，计算几何形状，日光和建筑设计方面的专业知识为基础，将使用计算机图形图和日光建模来推进建筑日光设计的科学，以促进设计中的科学和对创造力的理解，并促进创新工具，使设计人员能够创建替代设计和新技术，以探索其替代技术和新技术的能力。 特别是，PI将在定性和定量准确的交互式照明模拟中将其先前的结果扩展到有效的，交互式算法上，以开发一个“插入”，以实现全球照明和可视化，可以将其无缝融合到设计的早期阶段，并可以直接与常用的模型程序一起生成的网格。 新工具将旨在由经验丰富的设计师在标准台式计算机上使用，他们不需要成为昼夜技术或高级图形模拟的专家。 PI还将作为伴侣系统发展一个全面的沉浸式环境，其中多个建筑设计师，设计师和客户或教师和学生可以聚集来体验拟议设计中自然照明的动画可视化，通过控制一天中的时间，季节，季节，气候和气候。 Participants will also be able to interactively redesign the space, by changing the geometry and materials. This system will be developed and exhibited on the PI's campus in the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), leveraging the computational resources at the new Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI), two state-of-the-art facilities that are unique to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Broader Impacts: The tools to be developed in this project will incorporate fundamentally new interactive global illumination algorithms to solve for the challenging dynamic illumination conditions presented by daily and seasonal variations of the sun and sky. 将应用和扩展并列并扩展并行的平行和分布式计算领域的技术，以促进在迭代架构设计期间在线模拟和优化。 因此，建筑设计过程将变得更加有效和创造力，从而可以更好地利用日光，并因此减少了补充电灯的需求，从而导致更节能的建筑设计。 相同的框架将适用于需要复杂的物理模拟和可视化的其他设计问题，包括被动太阳能供暖和冷却，声学，空气动力学建筑信封，结构分析以及一般（非架构）设计方案。