Now that I’m back from Toronto I have the time to share some news that came our way last week.
The production team at Frontiers in Sustainable Cities informed us that a paper we’ve been working on – Experiential space analysis: scoring tranquil, social, and explorative places in habitable buildings – has been published in their research topic on Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Building: Balancing IEQ with Energy Efficiency.
The paper is the culmination of significant effort from the various authors – Rhys, Nastaran, Jeremy, Seba, Dianne, Frederik, Mike, Liviu, Tomas, Dagmara and myself – over a couple of years. The paper charts the start of our journey to explore whether spatial analysis allows us to predict how architectural spaces might be used – whether they are tranquil, social or explorative in nature – in order to deliver insights early in the design phase when various decisions around materials etc. have not been made.
Technically the various prototypes we created to…