Anthropic activities negatively impact natural and artificial ecosystems, necessitating interdisciplinary mitigation strategies such as multi-species building envelope designs.
This research is part of the HORIZON2020 ECOLOPES project, which focuses on transforming the building envelope into an “ecolope”, a multi-species habitat designed to support humans, plants, animals, and microbiota. The project develops core technologies and systematic approaches for designing ecolopes by integrating ecological knowledge into the architectural design process.
As part of the ECOLOPES project, our research introduces a hybrid computational multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model to support envelope designs. A nested strategy for key performance indicators (KPIs) is proposed to correlate and measure architectural and ecological performance. This strategy is integrated into the hybrid computational model, enabling envelope designs to be optimized and evaluated based on KPIs for both human and non-human objectives.
