Morphological composition assessment of kinetic façade designs via AHP and TOPSIS methods based on façade components and design inputs

Abstract

The study examines kinetic façade design components and inputs through literature. Factors affecting the kinetic façade composition are generalized with a compositional perspective. Compositional framework elements are distinguished as morphological and system aspects. These aspects are assessed with widely known examples in the relational dimension to reveal interactions between components and inputs. The relational assessments provide a base to build a morphological evaluation via AHP-TOPSIS. The method is applied to a parametric model. The values from the calculation can represent the complexity/uniformity of design alternatives. The most remarkable points of the method are that it can be reconstructed contextually with various sets of components for distinct subjects and its integration ability to any evaluation method as an external approach.