TY - JOUR
T1 - An investigation on the climate-responsive design strategies of vernacular dwellings in Khams
AU - Nie, Qian
AU - Zhao, Shichen
AU - Zhang, Qun
AU - Liu, Peng
AU - Yu, Zhuoyu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/8/15
Y1 - 2019/8/15
N2 - Successful building design balances ambitious environmental requirements and residential comfort by considering the regional culture, economic level, natural environment, indoor thermal comfort and energy consumption. Taking dwellings as a case study, this paper examines the potential of improving indoor thermal comfort through field investigations of indoor environments in the Tibetan area. Settlement location and layout designs, combined with the natural environment, religious culture, synchronous optimization of structural seismic performance and enclosed structure, and a semi-open space setting making full use of passive solar energy technology, is a major strategy for climate-responsive design in Khams that also meets local economic levels and modern living needs. The results show that this strategy can achieve 5 h with air temperatures over 16.4 °C (from 12:30–17:30) in a comfortable thermal environment without the consumption of fossil energy, while in the evening, the thermal environment indicators in the major living space remain stable with low heat loss, indicating that an appropriate heat source from local bioenergy can achieve indoor thermal comfort. Overall, the dwellings in Khams with abundant solar energy and a lack of fossil energy are very well adapted to local climate conditions.
AB - Successful building design balances ambitious environmental requirements and residential comfort by considering the regional culture, economic level, natural environment, indoor thermal comfort and energy consumption. Taking dwellings as a case study, this paper examines the potential of improving indoor thermal comfort through field investigations of indoor environments in the Tibetan area. Settlement location and layout designs, combined with the natural environment, religious culture, synchronous optimization of structural seismic performance and enclosed structure, and a semi-open space setting making full use of passive solar energy technology, is a major strategy for climate-responsive design in Khams that also meets local economic levels and modern living needs. The results show that this strategy can achieve 5 h with air temperatures over 16.4 °C (from 12:30–17:30) in a comfortable thermal environment without the consumption of fossil energy, while in the evening, the thermal environment indicators in the major living space remain stable with low heat loss, indicating that an appropriate heat source from local bioenergy can achieve indoor thermal comfort. Overall, the dwellings in Khams with abundant solar energy and a lack of fossil energy are very well adapted to local climate conditions.
KW - Climate-responsive design strategies
KW - Indoor thermal comfort
KW - Khams
KW - Qinghai-tibet plateau
KW - Vernacular dwellings
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U2 - 10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.106248
DO - 10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.106248
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85068513825
SN - 0360-1323
VL - 161
JO - Building and Environment
JF - Building and Environment
M1 - 106248
ER -