Performance-driven Design

Environmental Performance-driven Urban Design Workshop

Tutor Francesco De Luca PhD

Tel Aviv (online) 3 June 2025

Organized by: Ariel University - Architectural Artificial Intelligence Lab, Green Group, Israel Green Building Council, Oded Landau

The workshop will present state-of-the-art computational workflows to integrate environmental and climatic factors in the early stages of the urban design process to improve sustainability of the built environment. Through hands-on exercises, the attendants will learn methods and metrics to analyze solar accessibility of the building envelope and urban microclimate to generate building and urban forms with reduced energy requirement, and enhanced occupant wellbeing and livability of outdoor spaces.

Workshop program

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EAL0140 Environmental Performative Architecture and Planning 2024-25

Digital Design for Sustainability

Tallinn University of Technology – Academy of Architecture and Urban Studies

Academic year 2024-25 - fall semester - 6 ECTS credits

Lecturers: Dr. Francesco De Luca, Arch. Ioannis Lykouras

Assistants: Payam Madelat MSc, Jelena Kazak MSc

Day and time: Monday from 02.09 to 19.12, from 10:00 to 13:15

Location: TalTech Mustamäe campus Architecture building room ICT-701 and Teams from here

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Academic year 2023-24 - fall semester - 6 ECTS credits

Lecturers: Dr. Francesco De Luca, Arch. Ioannis Lykouras

Assistants: Karl Toomas Radik, Payam Madelat MSc

Day and time: Every Tuesday from 05.09 to 19.12, from 12:00 to 15:15 (Estonian time)

Location: TalTech Mustamäe campus class U03-405 and Teams from here

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Sustainable and Net-zero Building Design in a Dense Urban Environemnt

Tallinn University of Technology – Academy of Architecture and Urban Studies

Academic year 2022-23 - fall semester - 6 ECTS credits

Dr. Francesco De Luca, Arch. Ioannis Lykouras

Thursday 14:00 – 17:15 - TalTech Mustamäe campus class U03-405 and U03-422/423

EAL0140 Environmental Performative Architecture and Planning 2021-22

Tallinn University of Technology – Academy of Architecture and Urban Studies

Academic year 2021-22 - fall semester - 6 ECTS credits

Dr. Francesco De Luca, Arch. Ioannis Lykouras

Tuesday 16:00 – 19:15 - TalTech Mustamäe campus class U03-405 + U03-422/423

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Dr. Francesco De Luca

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Link to download the presentation

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Research Scientist Francesco De Luca, Lecturer Ioannis Lykouras

Thursday 14:00 – 17:15 - TalTech U03-405

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Files lesson 22.11.19

File 1

File 2

Files lesson 10.12.19

File 1 room 3D model

File 2 parametric shading model start

File 3 Solar Envelope Tools

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Studio leader: Dr. Francesco De Luca. Lecturer: Arch. Ivan Gavrilov

Monday 08:45-11:45 Computer lab U03-217 Mustamäe campus
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Computer lab - room U03-217 (Mustamäe campus) – Thursdays 15.45-17.30 (15.45-19.30)

Program (to be confirmed)

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Tuesday 10:00-11:30 – Computer Lab U03-217

Course program

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Parametric and Daylight Design for Electric Light Energy Saving

Course program

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Course program

Performance-driven Architectural Design and Planning

Student works

The following are the images of the final work presentations by the students.

Performance-driven Architectural Design and Planning

Lectures

The following are the slides of the three lectures during the workshop.

Performance-driven Architectural Design and Planning

Workshop program

Location

Tallinn University of Technology – School of Engineering - Civil Engineering and Architecture Institute

Dates

From 20 to 25 August 2018

Performance-driven Architectural Design and Planning

Workshop software

This page explain where to download the software necessary for the workshop and how to install it on the attendants computers (as mentioned in the program the attendants will participate in the workshop using their own laptops).

The software will be the following:

Rhinoceros (3D modeling)

Grasshopper (parametric design)
Ladybug Tools (environmental and solar design)

DIVA4 (daylight design)
Archisim (energy design)

Radiance and Daysim (daylight simulations)

EnergyPlus (energy simulations)

To download and install all the necessary software and components follow the following steps: