Yutong Zhang

Ms. Yutong Zhang

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Academic Career Length

1Year (2026-Present)

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19 August 2026 in Buildings
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CYChao Yang
Chao Yang
YFYao FU
Yao FU
LJLiao Jianqi
Liao Jianqi
YZYutong Zhang
Yutong Zhang
TZTianheng Zhang
Tianheng Zhang
ZWZitong Wang
Zitong Wang
The flexible and precise design of photovoltaic (PV) skin morphologies for building facades constitutes a critical element for optimizing building energy efficiency and enhancing indoor spatial performance. However, the complex interrelationships among climatic parameters and their spatiotemporal variations pose significant challenges to the prior validity and accuracy of climate-adaptive parametric skin morphology adjustments. To address these limitations, this study proposes a morphological generative framework for climate-adaptive Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) facades integrating Artificial Intelligence Algorithms and Bayesian prior-parameterized building envelopes. This framework is specifically designed to facilitate morphological decision-making regarding the overall climate-adaptive opening states of parametric PV skins under spatiotemporal dynamics. The proposed method integrates AI-based pattern recognition in spatiotemporal climate data with Bayesian Network-based prior probability techniques to derive optimal facade morphology schemes with the highest overall climate adaptability scores derived from weather forecasts, thereby achieving optimal transformations of the building envelope. Specifically, the model first employs an Artificial Intelligence Algorithm to generate the Bayesian Network structure required for overall climate adaptability scoring. Secondly, utilizing the Chinese Standard Weather Data (CSWD), the GRASSHOPPER algorithm is applied to implement variable parametric design on the facade skin, generating dynamic parametric skins and visual climatic data analysis cloud maps for energy benefit assessment. Finally, facade updates are executed based on the overall climate adaptability scores. The results demonstrate that the proposed framework effectively enables the real-time selection of optimal morphologies and opening states for dynamic skins based on comprehensive climatic adaptability criteria. Following model training and validation using 2025 Panjin meteorological data in the EnergyPlus Weather (EPW) format, the generated facade morphologies yielded solar radiation gains of 166.9 kWh/m2·month (peak month) for one of the optimal summer configurations and 90.5 kWh/m2·month (December) for one of the optimal winter configurations. Furthermore, by providing definitive evaluations of PV energy yields and indoor comfort levels across diverse weather scenarios, this framework offers explicit guidance for skin design, thereby reconciling the multi-objective optimization relationship between building energy conservation and occupant comfort.

25 June 2026 in Buildings
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JZJun Zhao Zhao
Jun Zhao Zhao
TZTianheng Zhang
Tianheng Zhang
YFYao FU
Yao FU
曦王曦 王
曦 王
CYChao Yang
Chao Yang
YZYutong Zhang
Yutong Zhang
Cold-region community outdoor spaces are not only everyday activity settings for older adults in winter, but also public-space types that need to be translated into design evidence for architecture and healthy human-settlement research. Existing restorative-environment studies usually treat improved mood, perceived restoration, and environmental appraisal as evidence of health benefits. The key finding of this study is that subjective restoration and physiological recovery are not always synchronized after outdoor exposure in cold-region communities. This discordance reveals a design risk and an innovative value that can be overlooked when restoration is evaluated only through perception-based indicators. Based on a winter field exposure experiment with 345 older adults in a community in Shenyang, China, this study compared staged changes in systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), pulse pressure (PP), POMS, ROS, and ENPQ across an activity plaza, a greenway walkway, and a street corridor. It further developed a psychophysiological concordance classification and a residual cardiovascular risk indicator for the recovery period. The greenway walkway showed the most stable concordant recovery, with 86.84% of women and 79.35% of men showing concordant recovery. The activity plaza showed a clear pattern of emotional recovery: the proportions of women and men whose psychological state improved without a synchronized SBP decrease were 61.58% and 50.32%, respectively. The street corridor had the highest recovery-failure rates, at 92.63% for women and 91.61% for men. Among women, 90.53% reached SBP values of 140 mmHg or higher during the walking phase in the street corridor, and 59.47% remained above this risk threshold during recovery. These results show that health evaluation of cold-region community outdoor spaces should not rely only on subjective restoration indicators, but should also include psychophysiological concordance and residual risk after exposure. The study translates site health effects into three architectural design judgments: concordant-restoration spaces, emotional-restoration spaces, and recovery-failure spaces, providing a testable evidence framework for age-friendly community renewal, path organization, green buffering, and winter wind-protection design.