Performative In Local Architecture, Marshes As A Model

Abstract

Building performance represents the most important factors for the successfulness and evaluation ofbuildings efficiency in meeting the requirements, expectations, and acceptance of the inhabitants. As a result, itindicates the success or failure of the architectural design experiment in the building. The research deals with themost important aspects of the performance and factors affecting the efficiency of the building, highlighting theindicators of thermal comfort assessment and types of standards and the most important software used in. Thus theresearch focuses on the possibilities of performance simulation programs in raising the standard of living and try toreduce the gap between the technological developed world and the local experience, through the development of acomputer model which simulate the local environment. The aim is introducing the possibilities of simulationcomputer models to help in providing a better environment according to thermal comfort standards of the building’soccupancy. The experimental method came in three levels, the analytical level (to analyze the case study), thestandard level (to return the results from the previous level to a benchmark manual for comparison), and the designlevel (to propose design alternatives to solve the problems derived from the previous two levels). The use of programs such as Rhino, Grasshopper, RayMan, leads to perform a specific function in the simulation processaccording to each level of application. The most important outputs of the research are the great effeteness of thearchitectural form on temperature change and thus access thermal comfort by comparing the basic form in addition tofive other design alternatives. Additionally, the total radiation temperature varied each time, thus varying the degreeof thermal comfort. The optimal shape was selected from the range of models as the closest one to the human thermalcomfort zone.