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Published on: February 16, 2019
Space use optimisation and sustainability-environmental assessment of space use concepts
Andy van den Dobbelsteen1, Sebastiaan de Wilde
1Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5043, Delft, GA 2600, The Netherlands. a.a.j.f.vandendobbelsteen@bk.tudelft.nl
Abstract:
In this paper, as part of a diptych, we discuss the factor space as a means of improving the environmental performance of building projects. There are indicators for space use efficiency and several more or less broadly supported methods for assessment of environmental issues such as ecological quality, use of building materials and energy consumption. These are discussed in this paper. Assessment methods coupling space use to environmental indicators had not been available until now. Beforehand, plans with different spatial properties could therefore not be environmentally compared. We present a method for the implementation of space use in assessments concerning sustainability. This method was applied to the urban case study presented in our second paper in this journal. In this paper, we also present solutions for improved environmental performance through intensive and multiple use of space in the second, third and fourth dimension.
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