The phrase "building shape" is acceptable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe the shape of a building, or when you want to discuss the overall design of a building or architecture. For example, "The Empire State Building has a distinctive building shape that is instantly recognizable."
To generate prismatic shaped structures with vertical walls and flat roofs, building shape is retrieved from the cadastre database while elevation information is extracted from the DSM.
A simulation optimization tool is developed and applied to optimize building shape and building envelope features.
The present study considered building materials, their thickness, building shape, and occupant schedule as design variables since building energy performance is sensitive to these variables.
Numerical results demonstrate that building shape, street geometry and the presence of street furniture can have a strong impact on people's noise exposure.
The method is tested on various examples and is shown to work well unless the building shape results in a large number of partitions.
This paper provides a simplified analysis method to estimate the impact of building shape on energy efficiency of office buildings in Kuwait.
Performance-driven optimization has shown its potential to integrate design and energy performance, since building shape and envelope are determinant to the energy demand.
In this study, the impact of passive design parameters such as building shape and orientation position on heating demand has been theoretically investigated.
Presented is an integration of machines, materials, and modeling resulting as a full-scale house and a redefinition of construction components, assembly and building shape.
The findings of this study show that building shape and the resultant wind-structure interaction plays a significant role in the pollutant dispersion around a building, thus influencing the air quality at different part of a building.
The aerodynamic modification of a building shape changing the cross-section with height through tapering, which alters the flow pattern around the building, could reduce wind-induced excitations of tall buildings.
