A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Case Studies of Environmental Visualization
The performance gap between simulation and reality has been identified as a major challenge to achieving sustainability in the Built Environment. While Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) surveys are an integral part of better understanding building performance, and thus addressing this issue, the importance of POE remains relatively unacknowledged within the wider Built Environment community. A possible reason that has been highlighted is that POE survey data is not easily understood and utilizable by non-expert stakeholders, including designers. A potential method by which to address this is the visualization method, which has well established benefits for communication of big datasets. This paper presents two case studies where EnViz (short for “Environmental Visualization”), a prototype software application developed for research purposes, was utilized and its effectiveness tested via a range of analysis tasks. The results are discussed and compared with those of previous work that utilized variations of the methods presented here. The paper concludes by presenting the lessons drawn from the five-year period of EnViz, emphasizing the potential of environmental visualization for decision support in environmental design and engineering for the built environment, and suggests directions for future development.
Case Studies of Environmental Visualization
The performance gap between simulation and reality has been identified as a major challenge to achieving sustainability in the Built Environment. While Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) surveys are an integral part of better understanding building performance, and thus addressing this issue, the importance of POE remains relatively unacknowledged within the wider Built Environment community. A possible reason that has been highlighted is that POE survey data is not easily understood and utilizable by non-expert stakeholders, including designers. A potential method by which to address this is the visualization method, which has well established benefits for communication of big datasets. This paper presents two case studies where EnViz (short for “Environmental Visualization”), a prototype software application developed for research purposes, was utilized and its effectiveness tested via a range of analysis tasks. The results are discussed and compared with those of previous work that utilized variations of the methods presented here. The paper concludes by presenting the lessons drawn from the five-year period of EnViz, emphasizing the potential of environmental visualization for decision support in environmental design and engineering for the built environment, and suggests directions for future development.
Case Studies of Environmental Visualization
Patlakas, P (author) / Koronaios, G (author) / Raslan, RM (author) / Neighbour, G (author) / Altan, H (author)
2017-10-01
Energies , 10 (10) , Article 1459. (2017)
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
690
Mobile Environmental Visualization
| Online Contents | 2005
Environmental innovation case studies
British Library Online Contents | 1997
Environmental innovation case studies
Online Contents | 1997
Visualization in Environmental Sciences Workshop
| DataCite | 2013
Visualization of correlation-based environmental data
| Online Contents | 2004