Impacts of the Courtyard with Glazed Roof on House Winter Thermal Conditions

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Su, Bin

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2011

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courtyards
house design
indoor thermal comfort
‘wind-rain’ house

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Su, B. (2011). Impacts of the Courtyard with Glazed Roof on House Winter Thermal Conditions. C. Ardil (Ed.). Proceedings of ICESSE 2011: International Conference on Environmental Systems Science and Engineering. Venice. CD Rom : N 20.

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The ‘wind-rain’ house has a courtyard with glazed roof, which allows more direct sunlight to come into indoor spaces during the winter. The glazed roof can be partially opened or closed and automatically controlled to provide natural ventilation in order to adjust for indoor thermal conditions and the roof area can be shaded by reflective insulation materials during the summer. Two field studies for evaluating indoor thermal conditions of the two ‘windrain’ houses have been carried out by author in 2009 and 2010. Indoor and outdoor air temperature and relative humidity adjacent to floor and ceiling of the two sample houses were continuously tested at 15-minute intervals, 24 hours a day during the winter months. Based on field study data, this study investigates relationships between building design and indoor thermal condition of the ‘windrain’ house to improve the future house design for building thermal comfort and energy efficiency

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