OPTIMIZING HOUSING UNITS

for informal settlements

In rapidly growing cities like Dhaka, Bangladesh, sustainable housing in urban wetlands and slums present a challenge to more affordable and livable cities. The Container Housing System (CHS) is among the latest methods of affordable, modular housing quickly gaining acceptance among local stakeholders in Bangladesh. Even though container houses made of heat-conducting materials significantly impact overall energy consumption, there is little research on the overall environmental impact of CHS. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the performance of CHS in the climatic context of the Korail slum in Dhaka. The project proposes a building envelope optimization and visualization workflow utilizing parametric cluster simulation modeling, multi-objective optimization (MOO) algorithms, and virtual reality (VR) as an immersive visualization technique.

 

INFO

Haque, Md. O., Rahman, N. N., Tabassum, N., & Aman, J. (2022). Evaluating the Daylighting and Energy Performance of Container Housing Systems in Coastal Regions: An Iterative Modeling Approach. In H. Altan, S. Sepasgozar, A. Olanrewaju, F. J. García Peñalvo, A. Gaetano Severino, T. Iyamu, & J. H. Lee (Eds.), Advances in Architecture, Engineering and Technology (pp. 153–165). Springer International Publishing. 

Paper link

Aman, J., Tabassum, N., Hopfenblatt, J., Kim, J. B., & Haque, M. O. (2021). Optimizing Container Housing Units for Informal Settlements- A parametric simulation & visualization workflow for architectural resilience. 26th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA).

Paper link

How to optimize energy performance of the housing units in informal settlements considering the objective and subjective variables?

 

This study proposes a parametric envelope optimization and immersive visualization framework applicable to sustainable informal settlement development. The envelope optimization process was tackled through multi-objective optimization algorithms. On the other hand, the immersive visualization process addressed socio-cultural values via stakeholder feedback.

 

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