Katerina vagianou passive cooling strategies implementation to existing building stock in the urban context of athens. Integrating passive cooling techniques for sustainable. Passive design features for energyefficient residential buildings in tropical climates. A floor plan of a home, with passive cooling features noted. A passive cooling design for multifamily residences sic. Eaves provide passive shading and summer sun exclusion on the north walls, but allow maximum summer sun to penetrate. The thesis centers on the design of a membrane material for cooling hot, humid climates via dehumidification, by selecting water vapor out of humid air.
Within this thesis, a brand new air scoop is designed. Solar passive architecture cooling techniques will certainly be an appropriate design solution for this region. Welcome to inhabitat, your online guide to the best green design ideas, innovations and inspiration to build a cleaner, brighter, and better future. Some of the passive solar desgin strategies are seem in traditional architecture from harsh cold to hot humid climate, they have been in. Table 1, summarises the basic cooling strategies that can. The purpose of the project has been to conduct a thorough, objective. This thesis project attempts to demonstrate that passive solar technology can be effective in any region, even the gloomy climate of western new york, and that it. This thesis is situated in the practical connection of two normally disparate parts. Passive cooling systems in iranian architecture journal. Passive cooling, thermal comfort, sustainability, vernacular architecture, water village, hot and humid climate.
There are several passive solar design techniques that can be implemented into buildings. Passive cooling techniques applied tropical architecture. Bioclimatic design, undergraduate thesis by ravindra d. Application of passive cooling techniques in the design of proposed senate building, dutsinma katsina by abubakar audi saadu. Case study on strategies used in jacobs house designed by frank lloyd wright by david gikaru a thesis submitted to the faculty of graduate and postdoctoral affairs in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of architectural studies in azrieli school of architecture and urbanism. Passive cooling methods for mid to highrise buildings in the hothumid climate of douala, cameroon, west africa. Throughout the year the temperature is low, so solar passive heating strategy is needed to bring it in comfort zone. During my student years, concepts and philosophy never got explained clearly.
In addition, the energy demand of buildings has increased rapidly due to both the improvement of living standards and the globalisation of modern architecture. The passive house is the ultimate low energy building. Passive cooling techniques are least expensive means of cooling a home which maximizes th e efficiency of the building envelope without any use of mechanical devices. Analysis of the passive design and solar collection. They derive cooling directly from evaporation, convection, and radiation without using any intermediate device. Buildings, a phd thesis presented to department of mechanical. Importance of interesting architecture phd topics for further research.
Vegetation, green roofs, green walls, water ponds and fountains are efficient cooling techniques. The use of glazed facades in modern buildings has come with an increased operational cost due to the higher solar gain. Passive cooling techniques can reduce the peak cooling load in buildings. In the uae, where cooling is a primary concern, much can be done to capture natural breezes to keep buildings cool. Passive cooling strategies have been applied recently through primary stage of building design in tropical climate whilst reduction of operation costs, preparing satisfactory thermal comfort and prevention from climate changes will be attained. Proceedings of the third passive and lowenergy architecture conference, mexico, pp. Space design for thermal comfort and energy efficiency in. Passive cooling techniques, building envelope, climate design and energy conservation.
Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Pdf study on efficiency of passive cooling strategies on. Different methods of solar lighting design and technology architecture. Within this thesis, a brand new air scoop is designed to overcome. Passive design features for energyefficient residential. Passive houses in cold climates are covered in chapter four followed by the conclusion of the thesis. Climatic responsive energy efficient passive techniques in. Passive cooling systems use nonmechanical methods to maintain a comfortable indoor temperature and are a key factor in mitigating the impact of buildings on the environment. Its important to have a thorough awareness of what it means to obtain a phd in architecture. Architect uses ancient techniques to cool modern building.
Yuan computer animation system to teach passive cooling strategies for hot humid. Passive cooling for houses on water in brunei darussalam search for a new vernacular rozia haji adenan university of nottingham, nottingham, united kingdom. In this paper, passive cooling techniques, design concepts, energy efficiency measures and some. I have lately been collecting art, architecture, and design books that offer shape, decoration, design, and assembly ideas pertinent to 3d design and 3d printing. An important reason is global warming because global warming increases the number of cooling degree days. Though there is a great wealth of potential phd thesis topics in architecture, you will be pleased to know that there are fundamental truths which apply to any and all such topics. Fuchs compilation of ecological design and planning information for a reference text on sustainable architecture. This thesis also proposes a series of passive cooling design solutions for the multifamily residences found in hot, humid climates like taipei. An alternative to such time consuming computer modeling is using rules of thumb.
Passive cooling keeps building cooler for longer without. Landscape and outdoor spaces are also important passive cooling strategies. Passive cooling phase 2 thesis case study pearls architecture design fashion arquitetura. Architecture, faculty of environmental design, ahmadu bello university, zaria. Passive cooling architecture thesis proposal titles.
Peter erler 2page passive houses in a cold climate 1. Retrofitting passive cooling strategies to a brisbane school. Passive cooling methods for mid to highrise buildings in. Using passive cooling strategies to improve thermal. Consequently, the aim of this study is to test the usefulness of applying selected passive cooling strategies to improve thermal performance and to reduce energy consumption of residential buildings in hot arid climate settings, namely dubai, united arab emirates. Department of architecture, aligarh muslim university. In addition, a lowcost cooling system is developed as a substitute for conventional highcost airconditioning systems, to be used during periods when passive means are incapable of maintaining human. The goal of passive cooling is to avoid overheating the structure by solar. In this short video, we discuss simple passive cooling strategies along with the logic behind them. Proper zoning of different components and local ventilation of major heat sources can reduce the overall impact of internally generated heat loads. Planting filters and directs breezes towards openings in the home, which receives cross ventilation from cool breezes. If you are a thesis student, this would be a very good one. Even though they represent an acceptable alternative for mechanical evaporative coolers, scalping strategies are afflicted by their limited applications when it comes to air flow and small rate of warmth transfer. The efficient strategy of passive cooling design in desert housing.
Passive cooling applications in commercial buildings in hot regions unpublished masters thesis. It rely on natural heat sinks to remove heat from the building. This research responded to this context by focusing on the design and manufacture of a novel cooling system that combined the principles of passive cooling with the inherited use of ceramics in architecture to create an aesthetic and optimised wetted porous ceramic cooling pcc screen that improves comfort conditions in indoor, transitional. The iaac institute for advanced architecture of catalonia has developed a series of advanced materials and systems for air conditioning and passive ventilation, allowing homes to reduce interior. To drawpantonecorner deskarchitectural modelsinteriorsthesismaterial. Architect uses ancient techniques to cool modern building in india. I am certain many studios in the architecture schools will be doing projects to solve or deal with gaza housing and infrastructure. Enhancing air movement by passive means in hot climate buildings chris butters school of engineering, university of warwick, uk this paper describes investigation of and proposed research into applied design solutions for passive cooling in hot climates through enhanced air movement, with a particular focus on low income housing. Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. Givonis bbcc covers the following passive cooling strategies. Puri study of building codes applicable to the himalaya foothills, to improve energy standards for small scale vernacular buildings. One case building was selected and eight passive cooling strategies were applied. While membrane selectivity is a wellknown field of study, found throughout nature and applied across industries, architecture has only regarded membranes as barriers.
In this paper, passive cooling techniques, design concepts, energy efficiency measures and some materials will be addressed. Passive cooling techniques can reduce the peak cooling load in buildings, thus reducing the size of the air conditioning equipment and the period for which it is generally required. Passive coolingancient and modern shed roof, house roof. Passive building design powell center university of florida. Its one of those things you read from the project brief and your kind of catch from comparing notes with what your best friend did in architecture school.
Passive down draft evaporative cooling system pdec. Passive cooling a diagram shows the crosssection of a northfacing home. An overview of passive cooling techniques in buildings. Within this thesis, a brand new air scoop is designed to. The last two decade has witnessed a severe energy crisis in. Sketch up 2017 for the model lumion 6 for the rendering and animation output photoshop cs6 for the final editing filmora wondershare for. There has been a drastic increase in the use of air conditioning system for cooling the buildings all around the world. Passive design strategies for cold and cloudy climate. The passive house standard is recognised in europe as the most advanced in terms of energy performance of buildings and going forward the european commission is set on implementing the passive house standard and also on setting more stringent. While in the design phase, these techniques can be tested using software packages that model heat transfer and energy usage in order to optimize the design. A study of the effectiveness and practical application of a range of strategies in primary schools in pakistan by mary hancock final report 1999 school of architecture, oxford brookes university, gipsy lane, headington, ox3 0bp england tel 0044 01865 483200 fax 0044 01865 483298. Passive cooling applications in commercial buildings in hot regions. Passive cooling systems were the main design driver in low energy architecture and vernacular architecture especially in hot climate regions.
The continued rapid growth of construction industry and demand of energy raises a number of persistent questions and problems and demands for solution. A study of natural cooling systems of jaisalmer, unpublished ph. I sure would want to run a design studio on it but it is not possible for me to do it with the curriculum i am working with at the moment. This thesis investigates the potentials of the use of passive solar design strategies in existing lowrise residential buildings in the context of energyefficient building design. Paulo by arthur casas architects kindergarten interior, kindergarten design, bookstore. Passive cooling for thermal comfort in summer is a big issue in lowenergy building design. Among the ways of developing energyefficient building design, there are mainly active and passive systems to consider and the thesis focuses on passive ones.
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