Research / Publications

Facade
Research.

M.Des Sustainable Design research on facade optimisation, environmental simulation and computational decision-making. The record includes a published literature review and a submitted hotel-restaurant study.

Paper 01 / Published

A review of multi objective optimization in sustainable architecture: enhancing energy efficiency through dynamic facades.

A bibliometric review of sustainable-architecture optimisation research, using Scopus records from 2000–2024 and VOSviewer mapping to identify publication trends, thematic clusters and gaps.

Published / 2025M.Des Sustainable DesignScopus + VOSviewer

Publication

Asian Journal of Civil Engineering
26(6), 2319–2330.

Record set

1,732 records identified
1,598 unique records after filtering and duplicate removal.

Finding

Dynamic shading and life-cycle assessment were comparatively underrepresented in the reviewed optimisation literature.

Open publication record ↗

Paper 02 / Submitted manuscript

Static fins, glazing and a hotel restaurant zone.

A comparative simulation study of combined static-fin geometry and glazing parameters for cooling and annual daylight in a three-sided glazed hotel restaurant in Bilaspur.

Submitted / 16 August 2026M.Des thesis basis / Jan–May 2025Grasshopper + EnergyPlus + Radiance + Wallacei X

Case study

470 m² hotel restaurant zone
Three glazed sides in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh.

Search

NSGA-II optimisation
Four active objectives: useful daylight, underlit area, overlit area and cooling load.

Status

Submitted to Next Energy, Elsevier.
Manuscript record NXENER-D-26-00590.

Method record

Fin geometry and glazing are evaluated together.

The study compares fin-and-glazing configurations for annual cooling and daylight in a 470 m² hotel restaurant in Bilaspur.

01

DefineBilaspur climate, hotel zone, glazing and fin ranges.

02

Simulateannual cooling and climate-based daylight with a consistent model.

03

Searchthe coupled design space with NSGA-II in Wallacei X.

04

Reviewthe Pareto set and compare recorded outcomes across seeds.

SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPT · SELECTED FIGURES

Model, convergence and comparison.

Hotel model and transparent structural and zone representation
Study model and analysed zoneHotel massing at left; the right view shows the restaurant and nearby modelled zones included in the facade simulation.
Four objective convergence charts across 65 optimisation generations
NSGA-II convergenceGeneration-by-generation trendlines for useful daylight, overlit area, underlit area and cooling load across 65 generations.
Cooling-load outcomes across four optimization runs
Four-seed cooling comparisonCooling-load outcomes across four optimization runs.