In recent years, the benefits of green façades and living walls as passive systems for energy savings in buildings have been studied in depth, considering different technologies to integrate plants on building façades.The aim of this paper is to present an optimization analysis to determine some important physical variables to define the thermal behaviourof a green wall. The optimization was handled entirely within the virtual environment provided by Rhino, Grasshopper, and the evolutionary algorithm Galapagos. The simulation was performed using EnergyPlus and the Ladybug and Honeybee plug-ins for Grasshopper. The results show a good agreement between the simulated and measured data. The results are discussed and recommendations for simulating green façades are made.
Green Facade Optimization (GFO): a parametric study
OTTONE, Maria Federica;COCCI GRIFONI, ROBERTA;LEUZZI, ANGELA GIOVANNA
2016-01-01
Abstract
In recent years, the benefits of green façades and living walls as passive systems for energy savings in buildings have been studied in depth, considering different technologies to integrate plants on building façades.The aim of this paper is to present an optimization analysis to determine some important physical variables to define the thermal behaviourof a green wall. The optimization was handled entirely within the virtual environment provided by Rhino, Grasshopper, and the evolutionary algorithm Galapagos. The simulation was performed using EnergyPlus and the Ladybug and Honeybee plug-ins for Grasshopper. The results show a good agreement between the simulated and measured data. The results are discussed and recommendations for simulating green façades are made.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
