Arunabha Sau

Low-energy passive solar residence in Austin, Texas

Finding out the possibility to reduce discomfort hours in house using solar chimney, natural ventilation and dual façade in hot-humid climate

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Abruptly 40% of the world has hot-humid climate. In hot-humid climate, the wide span of temperature and humidity cause architectural designers a huge trouble to design a non-air conditioned built environment, if they have to design to provide optimum thermal comfort throughout the year. Therefore, from the ages, in every civilization , it has been an eternal challenge for designers, to design a thermally comfortable built environment for the climatic condition. In 1980s with the invention of mechanical ventilation the world changed; it erased the history- old architectural research to search the optimum inside building comfort by passive solar design. Now, it's time to oil our history-old research to find the way the design for the optimum comfort by only design. Two major issues temperature and humidity; to solve them I've chosen the wind and the sun. For wind power, I conceptualized a wind catcher; and to get the maximum use of the sun I designed a concave glass wall to absorb the highest amount of solar radiation. From a simple simulation of the design in Autodesk® Ecotect® showed more than fifty percent of reduction of discomfort degree hours.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9783844314601
• ISBN-10: 3844314601
• Artikelnr.: 33194973

Autorenporträt

Con una licenciatura en Arquitectura, trabajé en varias firmas famosas en India: desde el diseño hasta el sector inmobiliario, donde me di cuenta de la importancia y el alcance del ahorro de energía en la arquitectura. En mi Maestría en Arquitectura en Texas A&M combiné la tecnología solar pasiva con la arquitectura moderna. Ahora trabajo como Analista de Energía de Edificios en una empresa del área de la bahía de SF.