Towards Climate Responsive Building Design: Bio-Climatic Design Features of Residential Building Typologies in the Warm-Humid Climate of Ghana

The warm humid climate of Osogbo is characterised by its high humidity, relatively high temperature, and four distinct major seasons. Hence, this paper is aimed at assessing the climatic responsiveness of the five major residential building design types in Osogbo with a view to develop an energy sensitive design framework for a warm humid climate. This involves synergizing the comparative advantage discovered in each design type predicated on the Mahoney Tables assessment criteria. Data were obtained through measurement and assessment of the design characteristics of 209 residential buildings design types in Osogbo. Four political wards with the predominance of each of the five building design types (namely; traditional houses, rooming-apartments, apartments, bungalows and duplexes) were purposively selected. Buildings were assessed on layout (orientation), spacing between buildings, air movement (inlet/outlet), size of openings (fenestration), wall materials (thermal transmittance) and roof characteristics (thermal reflectance and transmittance). Findings revealed that the bungalow designs had better orientation compared with the other buildings surveyed. The duplexes had better spacing; the rooming-apartment designs had adequate air movement. Likewise approximately 70.0% of the surveyed residential buildings had adequate fenestration. The result also revealed that approximately 90.0% had their external walls constructed with hollow blocks of low thermal transmittance and lastly 15.3% of the total residential buildings had roof of high thermal reflectance and low transmittance. Out of this percentage, the duplex building designs accounted for the majority. Finally, an energy sensitive design framework was evolved from the comparative assessment of the five residential building design types analysed.

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Proposing Alternative Solutions to Enhance Natural Ventilation Rates in Residential Buildings in the Cfa Climate Zone of Rasht

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13020679 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 679

Author(s):

Roya Aeinehvand ◽

Amiraslan Darvish ◽

Abdollah Baghaei Daemei ◽

Shima Barati ◽

Asma Jamali ◽

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Keyword(s):

Natural Ventilation ◽

Residential Buildings ◽

Residential Building ◽

Ventilation Rate ◽

Humid Climate ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Passive Strategies ◽

Development Goals ◽

Ventilation Rates ◽

Ventilation Systems

Today, renewable resources and the crucial role of passive strategies in energy efficiency in the building sector toward the sustainable development goals are more indispensable than ever. Natural ventilation has traditionally been considered as one of the most fundamental techniques to decrease energy usage by building dwellers and designers. The main purpose of the present study is to enhance the natural ventilation rates in an existing six-story residential building situated in the humid climate of Rasht during the summertime. On this basis, two types of ventilation systems, the Double-Skin Facade Twin Face System (DSF-TFS) and Single-Sided Wind Tower (SSWT), were simulated through DesignBuilder version 4.5. Then, two types of additional ventilation systems were proposed in order to accelerate the airflow, including four-sided as well as multi-opening wind towers. The wind foldable directions were at about 45 degrees (northwest to southeast). The simulation results show that SSWT could have a better performance than the aforementioned systems by about 38%. Therefore, the multi-opening system was able to enhance the ventilation rate by approximately 10% during the summertime.

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Structure Design for Green Building in some Residential Area in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.71-78.655 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 71-78 ◽

pp. 655-658

Author(s):

Rong Qin

Keyword(s):

Energy Saving ◽

Indoor Environment ◽

Residential Building ◽

Green Building ◽

Building Design ◽

Residential Area ◽

Structure Design ◽

Green Building Design ◽

Land Saving ◽

Material Saving

There are six basic control items, land saving, energy saving, water saving, material saving, indoor environment and operation, among which, only material saving are related to structure design. We followed the green building design concept and the control items list in those standards during structure design of one of the residential area in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, which consist of 15~18-story residential building connected to a large underground garage, as is shown below.

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AN ENERGY RESPONSIVE RESIDENTIAL BUILDING DESIGN FOR FLORIDA: A CASE STUDY OF THE AWARD WINNING DESIGN DEVELOPED FOR THE FIRST PASSIVE RESIDENTIAL DESIGN COMPETITION SPONOSRED BY THE FLORIDA SOLAR ENERGY CENTER

Energy Resources and Conservation Related to Built Environment ◽

10.1016/b978-1-4832-8371-5.50006-2 ◽

1980 ◽

pp. 25-38

Author(s):

Peter E. Prugh ◽

Charles F. Morgan

Keyword(s):

Solar Energy ◽

Residential Building ◽

Building Design ◽

Residential Design ◽

Award Winning ◽

Design Competition ◽

Energy Center

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ARCHITECTURAL AND DESIGN FEATURES OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN SAINT-PETERSBURG IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XVIII CENTURY

URBAN CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURE ◽

10.17673/vestnik.2020.02.10 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 71-77

Author(s):

Svetlana G. GOLOVINA

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Residential Buildings ◽

Residential Building ◽

Residential Development ◽

Design Features ◽

Saint Petersburg ◽

Xviii Century ◽

Residential House ◽

Typical Solution ◽

Main Construction

The paper presents a review of architectural and design techniques which were characteristic for residential development in the second half of the XVIII century in St. Petersburg. During that period, there was formed the urban planning, volumetric spatial and constructional structure of residential buildings, which later, in the XIX - early XX century, became a typical solution for residential development in St. Petersburg. The fi rewalled residential house was usually built along the perimeter of the possessory plot of land with an inner courtyard formed inside. The residential house consisted of a two-span front building and one-span side buildings located along the perimeter of the site. The constructional system of a residential building in the second half of the XVIII century was a vaulted-beam scheme along the longitudinal walls. The main construction structures are described, such as brick walls with subsequent fi nishing, strip stone footings based on wooden joists, roofs built on wooden batt er rafters in a cold att ic with no heating.

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An Investigation of Design Considerations to Achieve Thermal Comfort in Warm Humid Climatic Zone of West Bengal

International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology ◽

10.22214/ijraset.2021.39098 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (11) ◽

pp. 1912-1917

Author(s):

Pritam Roy

Keyword(s):

Thermal Comfort ◽

Building Materials ◽

West Bengal ◽

Building Design ◽

Climatic Zone ◽

Primary Study ◽

Humid Climate ◽

Climate Conditions ◽

Building Orientation ◽

Design Factors

Abstract: This research paper presents the investigation of design consideration to achieve thermal comfort and the warm humid climatic zone of West Bengal is considered as the primary study area for the investigation. The varying thermal comfort behavior of humans in different climate conditions and seasons clearly demonstrates that the building design strategy must conform with the region of the building. In this paper, first studying the climatic characteristics of the warm humid region design factors are selected like building materials, cross ventilation, building orientation, roofing orientation, and materials, etc. After that, all those design factors are studied and the effect of all those factors on building in various conditions is observed. Keywords: Warm Humid Climate, Thermal Comfort, Building Materials, U-value, Cross Ventilation, Building Orientation

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