| In recent years, with the development of science and technology, photovoltaic building has become a usual architectural form. Building integrated PV (namely BIPV) both in theory and practice field has been greatly improved. However , the current research on BIPV is a typical interdisciplinary. Its participants lack a" whole" field of vision. This obviously hinders the development and popularization of BIPV now. Aiming at this problem, based on the newly development of theory and technology, conformed to the current" interdisciplinary" trend, this paper explores a new BIPV integration model -- BIM-BIPV. The article first briefly describes the background, purpose and significance of the BIM-BIPV research, then it introduced the situation of study and application both at home and abroad. Subsequently, it states the BIM and BIPV 's origin, development and principle and how did BIM influences BIPV on its optimization ( including lighting, power, thermal, safety, aesthetics etc ).Affter that, this paper focused on how BIM influeces BIPV's whole life cycle. In the fifth chapter, combines the example of " sunflower" from the 2010 Solar Decathlon competition, the paper analies the principle and process of BIM-BIPV design. Finally, the article affirmed the value of BIM-BIPV research again, and give a positive perspective on BIM-BIPV. |