Research on Indoor Environment Design Based on Ancient Gardens Builting Environment

2012 ◽  
pp. 455-463
Author(s):  
Yu Wen ◽  
Jiang Shu
Keyword(s):  
Indoor Environment ◽  
Environment Design

Open Plan Office Design Features Affecting Staff’s Health and Well-being Status

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arezou Shafaghat ◽  
Ali Keyvanfar ◽  
Hasanuddin Lamit ◽  
Seyed Ali Mousavi ◽  
Mohd Zaimi Abd Majid
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Indoor Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Effect Analysis ◽  
Office Design ◽  
Open Plan ◽  
Cause And Effect Analysis ◽  
Physical And Psychological Health ◽  
Health And Well Being

Sustainable office building indoor environment design is a challengeable issue for professionals in thermal comfort, satisfaction, health, and energy fields of research. The professionals intensively need a comprehensive list of office indoor environment design features to promote the level of performance and productivity of staff. One of the most effective factors dealing with staff performance and productivity is physical and psychological health which has not yet been investigated in depth is open-plan office design. In this regard, the current research aimed at establishing a comprehensive list of Open Plan Offices Design (OPOD) features affecting physical and psychological health and well-being of the staff at office buildings. Research methodology engaged two phases corresponding to two objectives. Phase one was to investigate OPOD features and sub-features through a critical literature review using fishbone cause-and-effect analysis technique. Phase one has clustered the OPOD features into two; positive and negative classes. The cause-and-effect analysis determined 3 positive features and 5 negative features involved in the positive and negative classes, respectively. The Efficient Workflow and Performance, Flexible Design, and Cost Efficient were identified as positive OPOD features which involves a number of sub-features. The Distraction, Decreasing Work Feedback, Job Dissatisfaction, Illness, and stress have been determined as OPOD features which impact negatively on staff’s health. The second phase conducted a content analysis on reviewed literatures to indicate the popularity of citation of each OPOD feature in previous studies. The content analysis determined in the Positive cluster, the sub-feature “Facilitate Communication”, under Efficient Workflow & Performance was investigated more than other sub-features. In addition, in the Negative cluster, the sub-feature Auditory Distraction under Distraction was highly investigated. The research asserts that undertaking the research outputs will promote performance and productivity of staff in office buildings. Architects, facility managers, design consultants, and authority may use the output as a decision support checklist for future office design and/or renovations.

Numerical Analysis of Microclimate of Desk Displacement Ventilation Using a Zero-equation Turbulence Model

2004 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Zhao ◽  
Zhao Zhang ◽  
Xudong Yang ◽  
Xianting Li ◽  
Dongtao Huang
Keyword(s):  
Turbulence Model ◽  
Indoor Environment ◽  
Measured Data ◽  
Thermal Plume ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Cfd Model ◽  
Displacement Ventilation ◽  
Plume Temperature ◽  
Computational Fluid Dynamics Cfd ◽  
Pollutant Concentration Distribution

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) program based on a zero-equation turbulence model is used to simulate the microclimate in a model office ventilated by desk displacement ventilation (DDV). DDV is a new ventilation concept that intends to combine the positive features of displacement ventilation and local task ventilation. The CFD model correctly predicts both the thermal plume and temperature stratification, and the calculated air temperature distributions agree with the measured data. The pollutant concentration distribution is further simulated to evaluate the microclimate of DDV. Results show that despite rather large discrepancies between simulated velocity distributions and experimental data, the zero-equation turbulence model may simulate the main characteristics (thermal plume, temperature, and qualitative velocity tendency) of DDV more quickly than other commonly used models, for instance, the k-ε model, and thus may be applied to similar cases in indoor environment design.

On the feasibility of affordable high-fidelity CFD simulations for indoor environment design and control

2020 ◽  
Vol 184 ◽  
pp. 107144 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Morozova ◽  
F.X. Trias ◽  
R. Capdevila ◽  
C.D. Pérez-Segarra ◽  
A. Oliva
Keyword(s):  
Indoor Environment ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Cfd Simulations ◽  
And Control

Residents' Needs for Indoor Environments

2013 ◽  
Vol 361-363 ◽  
pp. 464-467
Author(s):  
Bing Wang ◽  
Pei Chao Chen ◽  
Xiao Liu
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Indoor Environment ◽  
Space Environment ◽  
Indoor Environments ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Indoor Space

Based on the indoor space environment as the theme, this paper illuminates the indoor environment design goals: meeting the psychological and physiological needs, and reveal all aspects involved in these two requirements. Providing a reliable theoretical basis for the design of indoor environment.

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