Optimizing Multi-Family Building Massing for Affordability and Envelope Performance: An Investigation of the Trade-Offs Implicit in Low Rise Residential Buildings

Keyphrases

• Cost Performance 100%
• Construction Cost 100%
• Environmental Performance 100%
• Low-rise Residential Building 100%
• Multi-family Buildings 100%
• Envelope Performance 100%
• Floor Plate 100%
• Building Massing 100%
• United States 50%
• Explosive Growth 50%
• Floor Area 50%
• Building Envelope 50%
• Minimizing Cost 50%
• Tall Buildings 50%
• Building Height 50%
• Environmental Degradation 50%
• Economic Motivation 50%
• Environmental Objectives 50%
• Single-family House 50%
• Multifamily 50%
• Mid-rise Building 50%
• Environmentally Conscious 50%
• Housing Affordability 50%
• Building Shape 50%
• Twin Crisis 50%

Engineering

• Floors 100%
• Residential Building 100%
• Multifamily Building 100%
• Environmental Performance 66%
• Cost Performance 33%
• Construction Cost 33%
• Rise Building 33%
• Tall Buildings 33%
• Floor Area 33%
• Square Footage 33%