Despite the urgent global call for an energy transition and the promotion of health and well-being in cities, a holistic approach to evaluating the trade-offs between an urban energy balance and environmental quality considerations is lacking. This paper bridges this gap by introducing a Grasshopper digital workflow through which the impacts of a wide range of building and urban design parameters on both energy performance and environmental quality can be effectively evaluated. This workflow is tested here for both theoretical and site-specific urban test cases in the context of Tel Aviv. For these test cases, the performance metrics - energy load match, spatial daylight autonomy and universal thermal climate index - were calculated using EnergyPlus, Radiance and ENVI-met simulation engines for different block typologies and were then analyzed. The results showed that among the block typologies, the courtyard achieved the optimal combination across the tested environmental criteria, despite the daylight and energy generation penalty associated with self-shading in compact block typologies. This workflow highlights the performative tradeoffs between energy and environmental quality considerations and can thus help urban designers achieve not only a lower environmental impact but also regenerative and healthier design outcomes.

尽管全球迫切要求进行能源转型并促进城市的健康与福祉，但仍缺乏一种整体方法来评估城市能源平衡与环境质量因素之间的权衡。本文通过引入Grasshopper数字工作流程来弥合这一差距，通过该工作流程可以有效地评估各种建筑和城市设计参数对能源性能和环境质量的影响。在特拉维夫的背景下，此工作流在理论上和特定地点的城市测试案例中均经过测试。对于这些测试用例，使用EnergyPlus，Radiance和ENVI-met模拟引擎针对不同的块类型计算了性能指标-能量负荷匹配，空间日光自治和通用热气候指数-然后进行了分析。结果表明，在紧凑型块体类型中，尽管日光和能量消耗与自遮蔽类型中的自遮蔽相关，但在整个块体类型中，庭院均达到了经过测试的环境标准的最佳组合。该工作流程突出了能源和环境质量考虑因素之间的性能折衷，因此可以帮助城市设计师不仅获得较低的环境影响，而且获得再生和更健康的设计成果。