Simulation of courtyard spaces in a desert climate

Al-Hafith, Omar; Satish, B K; Bradbury, Simon; Wilde, Pieter de

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.401

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“…Due to increase in population that are expected to live in urban areas, as well as, the increase in air temperature because of the changing climate [115], it is crucial to establish an adaptive and responsive thermally efficient built environment by means of implementing passive design strategies at both building and urban scales. At the urban scale, reducing energy consumption in buildings and alleviating the urban canyon temperature is an integration of several passive design strategies such as trees [3,59,60,116], green roofs [69,73,117,118], green walls, and the fabric of local micro-climate scale [44,[119][120][121]. Based on these studies, the energy consumption of the whole examined urban forms and the housing typologies is proposed to be passively reduced through design, and the remaining energy demand can be met by renewable energy systems.…”

Section: Present Housing Typologies; With or Against The Climate Respmentioning

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A Review and Insights for Eleven Years of Urban Microclimate Research Towards a New Egyptian ERA of Low Carbon, Comfortable and Energy-Efficient Housing Typologies

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Since the mid-1970s, urban development in Egypt has sprawled far from the distinguished compact arid built environment, as the court-yarded housing typologies that completed the vernacular picture of desert architecture have been discarded in the early 20th century. This has motivated urban microclimate research in Egypt. The main objective was initially to improve outdoor thermal comfort. Therefore, Egyptian research started with assessing different existing patterns for the sake of climate responsive and sustainable urban design practice characterized with low carbon, thermal comfort and energy efficiency in such a hot arid conditions. That is why the review workflow of this article has followed a design progress workflow that led to solving design complexities with regard to generating housing urban forms on a microclimate basis rather than an article regular review workflow in order to extract the research gaps and conclude insights. After discussing a general framework for generating housing sustainable design identified from the concluded gaps, the main conclusion is a vision and a call to integrate the Urban microclimate-Building passiveness-Renewables design dimensions, UBR, towards the evolution of a new era of energy efficient housing typologies and a 5th generation of Egyptian sustainable cities where the 1st generation of new Egyptian cities started 1970s.

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Section: Present Housing Typologies; With or Against The Climate Respmentioning

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“…Since ANSYS Fluent is a software mainly designed to simulate fluid models and turbulence, it requires a not proportional amount of time and effort to be applied to buildings. Design Builder is a specific software for architecture that has been reported not to accurately simulate the temperature in the courtyards [16]. Since we are interested in the performance of outdoor spaces, the most suitable software seems to be ENVI-met, which we describe as follows.…”

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Courtyard microclimate ENVI-met outputs deviation from the experimental data

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Galán-Marín

Rivera-Gómez

et al. 2018

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It is necessary to determine if the tools used in the process of building performance calculation accurately reflect the real conditions, with the objective of introducing simulation in the design process of buildings. The aim of this study is the assessment of the effectiveness of the software ENVI-met v4 on the prediction of the thermodynamic performance of courtyards by means of comparing between field data obtained from simultaneous monitoring of three courtyards and the results obtained from the software simulations. The results of the study show a significant difference between monitored and simulated data for air temperature inside the courtyards. And the difference between outdoor temperature and courtyard temperature is too important not to be considered in building efficiency calculations. For that reason, ENVI-met it is not an accurate software to be used in the process of design of this kind of architectural transitional spaces that can be very important in order to design nZEB in some climates.

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“…Studies of the first group, Classification of residential architectural environment in Iraq. concerned the concept of residential architectural environment [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]. and focused on the meanings and form of residential architecture.…”

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“…It was like that. in the table (2) Third group studies, Informal housing. focused on informal and casual housing [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25].…”

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Rethinking the residential urban environment in Iraq - literature review

Hanoon

Dhumad

2021

E3S Web Conf.

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Is a new study to understand the residential architectural environment in Iraq through survey of a series of international, regional and local research and studies related to the residential architectural environment (1991-2019), which approximates 20 studies. the general problem the absence of a clear theoretical scenario that describes the architectural residential environment for the circumstances experienced by the Iraq now. Therefore, the aim of study to give an accurate description and definition of vocabulary and concepts through Theoretical conception to achieve a broader understanding of the residential architectural environment in Iraq (definition of the residential living environment, Housing satisfaction standards and description of the problem of informal housing). This is done by introduction of a three-stage model research, and classification of three items (Housing Satisfaction, Urban Context, Architectural Formation).The results of this study are a set of factors are related to spatial objective reasons for different architectural residential environments are similar the Iraq circumstances. and the research put its observations in a table divided into three axes, to archived aim.

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Simulation of courtyard spaces in a desert climate

Cited by 20 publications

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A Review and Insights for Eleven Years of Urban Microclimate Research Towards a New Egyptian ERA of Low Carbon, Comfortable and Energy-Efficient Housing Typologies

A Review and Insights for Eleven Years of Urban Microclimate Research Towards a New Egyptian ERA of Low Carbon, Comfortable and Energy-Efficient Housing Typologies

Courtyard microclimate ENVI-met outputs deviation from the experimental data

Rethinking the residential urban environment in Iraq - literature review

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