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TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Professional Green Building Council

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<strong>The</strong>me B: Creating a livable, healthy and environmentally viable citiesrecovery, fan configuration, filter type and location, motor efficiency, etc. <strong>The</strong>optimal design in light of architectural perspective is based on the ventilationmethod, size and location of diffusers and grilles, the amount of outdoor airflowrate, heat recovery method, etc. In the paper, optimal design from architecturalperspective is of main interest.In general, the optimal design process has two elements [2]:Decision: <strong>The</strong> designer must make a decision as to which pay-off between thecriteria results in the most desirable design solution;Search: a procedure to search for one or more solutions that reflect the desired payoffbetween the criteria.<strong>The</strong> relationship between decision and search has three forms [2].A priori preference articulation (decide→search): <strong>The</strong> most general method wherethe decision maker (DM) predetermines the weight factors according to differentevaluation criteria. For example the initial investment cost is twice as important asthe operation cost.Progressive preference articulation (decide↔search): <strong>The</strong> DM repeatedly performsdecide and search actions by varying the weight factors until a satisfactory designalternative is found.A posteriori articulation (search→decide): A set of feasible design alternatives isfirst created, and the DM selects an optimal design among them.In this study, (1) initial investment cost, (2) operation cost, (3) percentagedissatisfied (PD) and (4) CO2 concentration are selected as the objective functionelements. Architectural parameters such as ventilation method, size and location ofdiffusers and grilles, the amount of outdoor airflow rate, and heat recovery methodare chosen as design variables. However, the objective function is discontinuous394

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