performance-based design

The inclusion of health-based performance indicators and metrics in ventilation system design and research is a widely discussed topic in recent years. This is due to increased awareness about the health implication of indoor air quality and due to the need for innovative ventilation system control (smart ventilation) to limit building energy use.  

This paper presents the concept and a test implementation of a digital representation of the physical world designed to assess comfort quality in future environments. An integrated set of physical phenomena is modeled three-dimensionally to investigate the dynamic behavior of design objects holistically. The formulation supports the integration of computational simulation in the performance-based design process. It employs the principles of geometrical and physical selfcontainedness to avoid that complex geometrical and physical circumstances have to be specified at design time.