EA4102 Thermal Comfort and Passive Design Syllabus:
EA4102 Thermal Comfort and Passive Design Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES
To enable exploration of the relationship between architectural form, materials and environmental performance.
To give knowledge about how this relation should evolve in response to climate and emerging technical capabilities.
UNIT I HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
Atmospheric and thermal comfort, building performance, and occupant health, safety, and productivity. Factors responsible, energy systems for human comfort, PPD & PMV analysis
UNIT II NATURAL INFLUENCES
Micro and Macro thermal comfort scales – Interpreting Material data through Bio climatic charts Sun path, Passive strategies, Solar heat gain ,Solar radiation, Stack effect ,etc.
UNIT III DESIGN ELEMENTS
Modifications of Architectural & Landscape Elements – Fenestration, roof, walls, flooring, trees and landscape. Climatic zones and architectural features -Courtyard, Cross ventilation, Daylight factor, Walls ,Trombe wall, Buried pipe system ,Wind, Velocity ,Wind tower etc.
UNIT IV BUILDING MATERIALS
Properties of building materials related to Climatic zones -Properties of Heat transfer and energy flow, U-value, Appropriate materials. Mass materials/components selection strategy – Photovoltaic-Recycled Materials-Utilization of building water conserving installation- Evaporative coolers.
UNIT V HUMAN COMFORT STANDARDS
Designing for optimum Day Lighting-Ventilation and Thermal Comfort Standards. Acoustics – Manmade influences –Sick Building Syndrome – Indoor Environment and design of Healthy buildings. Adaptive model of thermal comfort and its application to sustainable design of buildings.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COUESE OUTCOMES
CO1 Understanding Human thermal response to natural elements and the influence of architectural design elements.
CO2 Knowledge about passive design techniques of architectural elements to achieve thermal comfort in built environment
CO3 understanding the characteristics of building materials for different climatic zones
CO4 Recognize how human thermal comfort criteria relate to sustainable building design.
REFERENCES
1. Arvind Krishan, SimosYanas, Nick Baker, S.V. Szokolay, Climate Responsive Architecture, Tata McGraw Hill Pub. Co, 2001
2. Daniel D. Chiras, The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2002
3. David Lloyd Jones, Architecture and the Environment: Contemporary Green Buildings, Overlook Hardcover, 1998.
4. Givoni, Climate Considerations in Building and Urban Design, Wiley; 1st edition, 1998. Hawkes Dean and Foster Wayne, Energy Efficient Buildings: Architecture, Engineering, and Environment. W. W. Norton & Company; First American Edition, 2002.
5. O.H Koenisberger, Manual of Tropical housing and climate, Longman Group United Kingdom, 2012.