OPTIMISATION METHODS AND APPLICATIONS
Figure 4.4: The full SEED-Layout design space, after (Flemming 1999). End user energy consumption has been used as optimisation criteria by many researchers. Heating and cooling energy have been used by Al-Homoud in optimisation of office buildings (Al-Homoud 1997b) and residential buildings (Al-Homoud 1997a). Coley and Schukat have also applied similar optimisation criteria (Coley and Schukat 2002). Simply minimising building energy consumption may lead to compact building forms with high insulations. To provide realistic design solutions lighting 91