Automated fenestration allocation as complying with LEED rating system

During the last decade, environmental issues in the design have started to attack architecture to preserve natural resources, and to improve the performance of designs. Many validation rating systems for sustainability are used to check the compromise of specific buildings with energy consumption and environmental issues. One of the great problems facing architects is checking that their designs compromise with the various rating systems. On the other hand, new techniques in architectural design based on automation, parametricity and algorithms have invaded the design with complicated methods and applications. One of the main environmental obstacles facing any design is the allocation of fenestration, which used to be linked mainly to the design of the facade. Contemporary windows allocation in design has started to be a more complicated issue when related to complying with certain validation environmental rating systems such as LEED. Through the use of common design strategies based on the contemporary techniques in architectural design, this issue could be achieved automatically. The allocation of windows, through the help of certain well known heuristic algorithms and simulation programs, could be reached automatically to compromise with the LEED rating system by achieving the required daylight amounts with a minimum solar radiation inside a particular building. This research shows a design method based on simulation techniques with the help of heuristic algorithms through a parametric design that automatically allocate windows to comply with LEED. At the end of the research, a small project is discussed for evaluating the design process.