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Research Article

Solar performance-driven urban development: the case of western Sydney, Australia

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Received 12 Feb 2024, Accepted 02 Jul 2024, Published online: 05 Aug 2024

Figures & data

Figure 1. Urban charctaeristics of the case study suburbs in Western Sydne.

Figure 1. Urban charctaeristics of the case study suburbs in Western Sydne.

Figure 2. Computational simulation workflow.

Figure 2. Computational simulation workflow.

Figure 3. Developed Algorithm and the associated used tool in each step.

Figure 3. Developed Algorithm and the associated used tool in each step.

Figure 4. developed urban model.

Figure 4. developed urban model.

Figure 5. Simplified urban model (phenotypes) and the associated evaluation grid sensors (colored in red).

Figure 5. Simplified urban model (phenotypes) and the associated evaluation grid sensors (colored in red).

Table 1. Simulation settings.

Table 2. Influential design factors.

Figure 6. An example of Pareto-frontier based optimization (Image source: (Pilechiha et al., Citation2020)).

Figure 6. An example of Pareto-frontier based optimization (Image source: (Pilechiha et al., Citation2020)).

Figure 8. The relation between set fitness objective.

Figure 8. The relation between set fitness objective.

Figure 7. SD graph, fitness values, SD trendline, and mean value trend line for fitness objectives.

Figure 7. SD graph, fitness values, SD trendline, and mean value trend line for fitness objectives.

Figure 9. Parallel Coordinate Plots of the top-ranked individual for Fitness Average (top) and Relative Difference (bottom).

Figure 9. Parallel Coordinate Plots of the top-ranked individual for Fitness Average (top) and Relative Difference (bottom).

Table 3. Multi-responsive design scenarios using RD and FA methods and the utopia solution with their related genes, layouts, values, and chromosomes (from top to bottom).

Figure 10. Parallel coordinate plot (top) and unsupervised machine learning algorithm (bottom) of the Pareto Front solutions.

Figure 10. Parallel coordinate plot (top) and unsupervised machine learning algorithm (bottom) of the Pareto Front solutions.

Figure 11. The outlier solutions.

Figure 11. The outlier solutions.

Figure 12. Optimum solution suggested by Evolutionary Method.

Figure 12. Optimum solution suggested by Evolutionary Method.

Table 4. Variable range of design parameters.

Table 5. Impact size of design parameters on different objectives

Figure 13. Improved solution suggested by the parametric approach.

Figure 13. Improved solution suggested by the parametric approach.