Design and Layout Optimisation of a Pair of Buildings Regarding Their Solar Potential
Abstract
Urban planners are often faced with the formulation of plans for multiple buildings, where they need to consider the available solar energy. Presented work tackles this problem using an evolution-based algorithm in combination with modelling of buildings within a real environment that was captured with laser-based LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) technology in order to optimise the design and layout of a pair of buildings regarding their solar potential. To solve the constrained optimisation problem the self-adaptive differential evolution (DE) is considered. The method was tested with a pair of rectangular buildings on a hilly LiDAR dataset, where the influence of shadowing between buildings and additional design parameters (the distance between buildings and orientation of the building pair) was analysed.
Keywords
Solar potential, Lidar, Buildings, Differential evolution