Bioclimatic Design—Where to Start?

The Dynamics of Daylighting at a Residential College Building with the Internal Courtyard Arrangement

International Journal of Architectural Research Archnet-IJAR ◽

10.26687/archnet-ijar.v9i3.588 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 148

Author(s):

Adi Ainurzaman Jamaludin ◽

Hazreena Hussein ◽

Nila Keumala ◽

Ati Rosemary Mohd Ariffin

Keyword(s):

Field Measurement ◽

Mean Value ◽

Design Strategies ◽

Residential College ◽

Bioclimatic Design ◽

Living Space ◽

Entrance Door ◽

Wall Openings

Dayasari residential college building was designed with the internal courtyard that allows for numerous implementations of bioclimatic design strategies, especially on daylighting. The field measurement was conducted at eight unoccupied student rooms, selected as samples to represent ten scenarios and orientations that concerned with the level of radiation and penetration of sunlight. This study reveals the contribution of the internal courtyard in the residential college which allows the daylight penetration at the corridor areas and interior of the rooms through the transom over the entrance door, up to ten hours daily. Different amounts of daylight were measured in specific room scenarios to suggest on the most comfortable indoor living space. The recorded mean value for indoor varied from 37 to 286 lux, while in the corridor area 192 to 3,848 lux. However, the use of the large overhangs over the windows, wall openings in the room and trees with large canopy in the landscape setting should critically justify when the adequacy of daylight was drastically reduced in certain rooms.

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De la loi bioclimatique à la conception bioclimatique en architecture

La Météorologie ◽

10.37053/lameteorologie-2021-0043 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 041

Author(s):

Clément Gaillard

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

Bioclimatic Design

Cet article souhaite étudier la circulation du terme « bioclimatique » à travers les différentes sciences où il a été employé au cours du XX e siècle et les projets scientifiques auxquels il a été associé. Si aujourd'hui ce terme renvoie généralement à l'architecture, et à ce qu'on nomme la conception bioclimatique, il n'est pas issu de l'architecture puisqu'il provient des recherches d'un entomologiste américain du début du XX e siècle nommé Andrew D. Hopkins. D'abord utilisé par Hopkins, puis dans de nombreuses autres sciences par la suite, il a été popularisé avec le développement de la conception bioclimatique en architecture dès 1963. Cet article propose d'étudier comment les significations successivement associées à ce concept se sont manifestées dans les préoccupations propres à l'architecture. This article aims to study the circulation of the term 'bioclimatic' through the different sciences in which it has been used during the 20th century and the scientific projects with which it has been associated. If today this term generally refers to architecture, and what is called bioclimatic design, it does not come from architecture since it comes from the research of an American entomologist at the beginning of the 20 th century named Andrew D. Hopkins. First used by Hopkins, then in many other sciences thereafter, it was popularized with the development of bioclimatic approach in architecture in 1963. This article proposes to study how the meanings successively associated with this concept were manifested in the concerns specific to architecture.

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Physical and Numerical Analysis of Bioclimatic Strategies Implemented on Social Housing

10.20944/preprints201805.0068.v1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Cesar Augusto Real-Ramirez ◽

Jose Maria Velazquez-Soto ◽

Rosalba Orduña-Martinez ◽

Jesus Isidro Gonzalez-Trejo

Keyword(s):

Social Housing ◽

Transient State ◽

Climatic Conditions ◽

Design Strategies ◽

Bioclimatic Design ◽

Physical Measurements ◽

Similar Criterion ◽

Economic Technology ◽

Low Speed Wind Tunnel ◽

Performance Research

This paper presents the results of aerodynamical performance research focused on maintaining the thermal comfort and increasing the energy efficiency of a typical social housing unit located in a high-density urban area. Bioclimatic design strategies are used to develop a sustainable and economic technology in existing housing clusters in Mexico City. A full-scale prototype, built on campus facilities, was used to study the flow conditions around the design. All scaled prototypes implement similar criterion. Furthermore, a scaled prototype is evaluated within a low speed wind tunnel installation. Additionally, numerical simulations were performed at transient state based on previous physical measurements and historical local climatic conditions to determine preferable modifications.

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