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DAYLIGHT PREDICTION USING GAN: GENERAL WORKFLOW, TOOL DEVELOPMENT AND CASE STUDY ON MANHATTAN, NEW YORK

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Jia_cornell_0058O_11204.pdf (1.27 MB)
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https://doi.org/10.7298/xz3w-yc87
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/109658
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Author
Jia, Mian
Abstract

In early design, the building morphology and floor plan determine its daylighting performance. However, climate-based daylight simulations are often computationally expensive and therefore their participation in fast iterative design is limited. Nowadays, image-to-image translation algorithms are promising since climate-based daylighting metrics are often visualized as a floorplan grid that can be represented in a pixel bitmap. The pix2pix, conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs), can quickly generate corresponding images based on the input images encoded with information. In our work, this method uses pix2pix as a proxy model to provide daylighting results with high accuracy while requiring little computing resources and running in a short time. Hence, using this method, designers can achieve accurate instant daylight performance feedback to polish the design outcome. We have wrapped our work as a new tool in Grasshopper, ArchiGAN, and organized a general workflow to predict daylighting performance for floorplans based on pix2pix.

Description
26 pages
Date Issued
2021-05
Keywords
daylight prediction
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GAN
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pix2pix
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proxy model
Committee Chair
Dogan, Timur
Committee Member
Sabin, Jenny E.
Degree Discipline
Architecture
Degree Name
M.S., Architecture
Degree Level
Master of Science
Type
dissertation or thesis
Link(s) to Catalog Record
https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/15049474

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