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Nowadays, there is a widespread awareness towards environmental issues. Thisis already visible in architecture by the increasing number of analysis tools thatevaluate different performance criteria. However, the application of these tools isusually restricted to the final design stages, conditioning the implementation ofdesign changes. Performance-Based Design (PBD) is an approach that addressesthis limitation. Through PBD, architects integrate analysis tools since earlydesign stages to make informed decisions regarding the performance of theirdesigns. Since the success of PBD highly depends on the number of evaluationsthat can be performed, these approaches usually end up benefiting fromParametric Models (PMs), which facilitate the generation of a wide range ofdesign variations, by simply changing the values of the parameters. Furthermore,in order to more efficiently achieve a PBD approach, architects can takeadvantage of the combination between PMs, analysis tools, and optimizationprocesses. In this paper, we explore this combination to optimize an exhibitionspace regarding its daylight performance and the material cost of the newelements intended for that space.