Sammendrag
The utilization of fossil fuels to run cities and industries has been a significant contributor to the climate crisis the world is facing today. The climate crisis endangers life of many ecosystems on this planet, as well as many aspects of human societies. Shifting towards using renewable sources of energy, e.g. solar energy, offers a great opportunity to mitigate Green House Gas emissions and reverse the current trend of global warming. Photovoltaic (PV) systems as means of harvesting solar energy offer promising potential to compensate for the energy demand of industries instead of fossil fuels. Installing PVs on buildings’ envelopes can alter urban areas from huge consumers to renewable power plants. However, integrating PV systems into buildings’ envelope entails exploring many aspects it covers; Building’s envelope serves as the first layer of visual connection with its context, plus, in urban areas, it is exposed to complex shading. Therefore, installing PV systems on building facades necessitates an integrated design process which involves collaboration among many fields it is affected by, e.g. architecture and electrical engineering. The challenges brought by the complex geometry and the interdisciplinary collaboration in this field demands a framework that accounts for both aspects. This research has developed a model-driven framework for interdisciplinary collaboration within an integrated energy design process for providing a sustainable BIPV system by producing a high-resolution model. All steps of the framework are designed with regard to the input they need to provide for the approaching step. To provide a high-resolution model which facilitates active involvement in a circular design process, the ClimateStudio plug-in has been utilized, and the proposed process has been simulated on a case study building, ARV-GreenDeal’s demo project in Oslo. The results of this research consist of a model-driven framework for interdisciplinary collaboration in BIPV design and an indexed data set of the irradiance values of the implemented BIPV modules in the case study.