TY - JOUR
KW - Modeling
KW - Integrated design
KW - Design studio
KW - Building simulations
KW - Green building design
AU - Jingjing Zhang
AU - P. Michael Pelken
AU - Yixing Chen
AU - Daniel J Rice
AU - Zhaozhou Meng
AU - Shewangizaw Semahegn
AU - Lixing Gu
AU - Hugh Henderson
AU - Wei Feng
AU - Francesca Ling
AB - <p>The “Virtual Design Studio (VDS)” is a software platform for integrated, coordinated and optimized design of building energy and environmental systems. It is intended to assist management, architectural and systems design teams throughout the early to detailed building design stages as analyzed in Part 1 (DOI: 10.1007/s12273-013-0110-2). This paper presents an overview of the VDS design and method of software implementation, including system composition, architecture, graphical user interface (GUI), and simulation solver integration. A VDS user workflow is also illustrated with a simplified design example.</p>
BT - Building Simulation
DA - 01/2013
DO - 10.1007/s12273-013-0111-1
IS - 3
LA - eng
N2 - <p>The “Virtual Design Studio (VDS)” is a software platform for integrated, coordinated and optimized design of building energy and environmental systems. It is intended to assist management, architectural and systems design teams throughout the early to detailed building design stages as analyzed in Part 1 (DOI: 10.1007/s12273-013-0110-2). This paper presents an overview of the VDS design and method of software implementation, including system composition, architecture, graphical user interface (GUI), and simulation solver integration. A VDS user workflow is also illustrated with a simplified design example.</p>
PY - 2013
SP - 253 
EP -  268
ST - Build. Simul.
T2 - Building Simulation
TI - “Virtual Design Studio”—Part 2: Introduction to overall and software framework
VL - 6
SN - 1996-3599
ER -