Ecological building design, fuzzy approach

"Current sustainable design paradigms do not represent the time dimension of design nor do they deal with the balance between needs and limitations of user [sic] through the life cycle of the building design process. Designers try to find optimum design solutions from a system point of view, as stabilizing structures to filter and control the diffusion of variations between the end-users' dynamic values and real-world environment. Hence, Eco-design ultimate objective [sic] is to find a balance between real-world systems and end-users' values with the lowest rate of impacts [sic] on the natural environment ... The book extracts, ranks and analyzes the most significant building design eco-indicators. Then a fuzzy assessment model, applying fuzzy logic and techniques, is developed"--Back cover.