Bioclimatism and vernacular architecture of north-east India

Singh, Manoj Kumar; Mahapatra, Santanu; Atreya, Sonal

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.06.008

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“…To satisfy the various necessities, vernacular architectures that developed through the centuries has much original and interesting design practices and technologies (Singh, 2009). It sets a harmony between dwellings, dwellers, and the physical environment.…”

Section: Vernacular Architecture and Climate Comfortmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessment of Climate Comfort in Vernacular and Contemporary Houses Of Iran

Soleymanpour¹,

Parsaei²,

Banaei³

2017

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Technology development causes a human oriented design to be forgotten all over the world. In housing design, one of the important factors for human-oriented design is Climate comfort. Today similar architectural patterns in different climate regions in Iran, can't provide residents comfort. While vernacular housing architecture of Iran had different patterns for providing climate comfort in different regions. The aim of this paper is to suggest some solutions to enhance the level of comfort in today's housing of Iran. This paper compares contemporary and vernacular houses of Iran in terms of climate comfort by using description and case study analysis methods.

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Section: Vernacular Architecture and Climate Comfortmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessment of Climate Comfort in Vernacular and Contemporary Houses Of Iran

Soleymanpour¹,

Parsaei²,

Banaei³

2017

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“…Since 20 years ago, the traditional point of view in terms of history, typology and folk of vernacular architecture has been reconsidered. Vernacular architecture's energetic behavior about its adequacy has been researched by several authors (Alp 1991;Gavieta 1991;Matsubara, Nakase & Horikoshi 1991;Özdeniz 1991;Al-Hinai, Batty & Probert 1993;Jingxia 1996;Cardinale, Micucci & Ruggiero 2003;Singh, Mahapatra & Atreya 2008;Vissilia 2009;Zhai & Previtali 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

Lessons from the vernacular architecture in Sierra Mágina, Jaén

López¹

2014

Vernacular Architecture: Towards a Sustainable Future

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Vernacular architecture has demonstrated its perfect environmental adaptation through its empirical development and improvement by generations of user-builders. Nowadays, the sustainability of vernacular architecture is the aim of some research projects in which the same method should be applied in order to be comparable. Hence, we propose a research method putting together various steps. Through the analysis of geographical, lithology, economic, cultural and social influence as well as materials and constructive systems, vernacular architecture is analyzed. But, all this information is put together with the natural landscape (topography and vegetation) and the climatic data (temperature, winds, rain and sun exposure). In addition, the use of bioclimatic charts, such as Olgyay or Givoni's, revealed the necessities and strategies in urban and building design. They are satisfied in the vernacular architecture by the application of different energy conservation mechanisms, some of them are shown by different examples in this paper.

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“…This process implicates the consideration of multiple environmental and anthropological variables. The environmental and bioclimatic design elements of vernacular architecture; amongst which are the consideration of climatic conditions, topography, rational use of local resources concerning employed materials and complexity of construction was highlighted in previous studies [2][3][4]. Passive heating and cooling strategies of vernacular buildings presumed upon the proper use of materials as well as buildings' location and orientation.…”

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Numerical assessment of night ventilation impact on the thermal comfort of vernacular buildings

2017

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Night ventilation, is one of the most effective passive cooling techniques that may contribute to the improvement of the occupants thermal comfort conditions. Despite the justified effectiveness of night ventilation, few studies quantified its influence on the thermal comfort of vernacular buildings, especially under warm dominant climates. The aim of this study is the investigation of the impact of night ventilation on the thermal comfort of vernacular buildings under summer dominant environmental conditions. The subjects under investigation was one traditional buildings in the city of Nicosia in Cyprus. In terms of this study numerical analysis regarding the thermal comfort of the investigated buildings was performed by employing Energy Plus and the flow solver of Design Builder. The indoor operative temperature distribution, the indoor air velocity and a thermal comfort related index were identified in selected thermal zones of the examined building using night ventilation. The results of this study quantified the potential temperature decrease that can result on vernacular buildings due to the use of night ventilation and revealed some restrictions with regard to the allowed percentage of the opening sizes towards achieving optimal thermal conditions in space. This study aspires to provide useful insight regarding the importance of humans' behavior in terms of enabling night ventilation to vernacular buildings, as well as to con-tribute to the ongoing scientific discussion on this subject.

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Bioclimatism and vernacular architecture of north-east India

Cited by 130 publications

References 18 publications

Assessment of Climate Comfort in Vernacular and Contemporary Houses Of Iran

Assessment of Climate Comfort in Vernacular and Contemporary Houses Of Iran

Lessons from the vernacular architecture in Sierra Mágina, Jaén

Numerical assessment of night ventilation impact on the thermal comfort of vernacular buildings

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