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This paper presents a study investigating the impact of design spaces on performance-based design optimization and attempts to demonstrate the relationship between these two factors through the lens of the span of design spaces. The study defines the span of design spaces as the variety of different types of building design that can be embodied by the parametric model; thus, the wider the span, the more likely is the optimization to identify promising types of building design. In order to reveal the relationship between the span of design spaces and performance-based design optimization, the study present a case study that includes design spaces with various spans within a building design optimization problem considering daylighting performance. The result shows that the difference in span can result in significant changes in optimization in relation to fitness and architectural implications.
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Wang, L. (2022). Understanding the Span of Design Spaces. In: Gerber, D., Pantazis, E., Bogosian, B., Nahmad, A., Miltiadis, C. (eds) Computer-Aided Architectural Design. Design Imperatives: The Future is Now. CAAD Futures 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1465. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1280-1_18
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