TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward multi-species building envelopes
T2 - A critical literature review of multi-criteria decision-making for design support
AU - Selvan, Surayyn Uthaya
AU - Saroglou, Soultana Tanya
AU - Joschinski, Jens
AU - Calbi, Mariasole
AU - Vogler, Verena
AU - Barath, Shany
AU - Grobman, Yasha Jacob
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors
PY - 2023/3/1
Y1 - 2023/3/1
N2 - Rapid urbanization negatively affects the built and biotic environment, necessitating interdisciplinary mitigation strategies. Current nature-based solutions that are integrated into building envelope design have proved to be beneficial. These solutions, however, are primarily anthropocentric and often overlook the potential to support other living organisms, such as animals and microbiota. Thus, a multi-species approach is envisioned to facilitate more holistic envelope-design solutions. While integrating ecological knowledge into architectural design often introduces decision-making complexity, multi-criteria decision-making can support multi-species building envelope design. This paper reviews such decision-making applications in two domains: building envelope design and ecological planning design. Using a systematic literature review methodology to compile relevant publications for full-text analysis, the results show significant disparities between the two domains. This is primarily driven by decision-making applications, the scale of analysis, criteria typology and external decision-maker engagement. However, we identified opportunities to sequentially employ multi-objective optimization and multi-attribute decision-making to mitigate the technical differences and facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration. Finally, we discuss future developments using hybrid multi-criteria decision-making to facilitate better architectural and ecological computer-aided design.
AB - Rapid urbanization negatively affects the built and biotic environment, necessitating interdisciplinary mitigation strategies. Current nature-based solutions that are integrated into building envelope design have proved to be beneficial. These solutions, however, are primarily anthropocentric and often overlook the potential to support other living organisms, such as animals and microbiota. Thus, a multi-species approach is envisioned to facilitate more holistic envelope-design solutions. While integrating ecological knowledge into architectural design often introduces decision-making complexity, multi-criteria decision-making can support multi-species building envelope design. This paper reviews such decision-making applications in two domains: building envelope design and ecological planning design. Using a systematic literature review methodology to compile relevant publications for full-text analysis, the results show significant disparities between the two domains. This is primarily driven by decision-making applications, the scale of analysis, criteria typology and external decision-maker engagement. However, we identified opportunities to sequentially employ multi-objective optimization and multi-attribute decision-making to mitigate the technical differences and facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration. Finally, we discuss future developments using hybrid multi-criteria decision-making to facilitate better architectural and ecological computer-aided design.
KW - Building envelope
KW - Design decision-making
KW - Multi criteria
KW - Multi-species
KW - Sustainability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85147334078&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110006
DO - 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110006
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AN - SCOPUS:85147334078
SN - 0360-1323
VL - 231
JO - Building and Environment
JF - Building and Environment
M1 - 110006
ER -