Abstract
Since the beginning of time, people have made sure to prepare a space that offers protection from changing climatic factors, as an attempt to create a suitable limited environment which enables them to perform various activities. It is natural that there are limits for climatic comfort relating to temperature, humidity, and ventilation which achieve human comfort. Past those limits, physical exhaustion and lack of production occur. Two methods have emerged to find solutions for this problem: the closed system and the open system. The closed system follows a group of ideas which rely on mechanical control. The open system depends on natural climatic control where the building acts as an environmental filter. In general, some buildings which lie in and around the area must be studied and lessons must be learned and extracted from them, the effect of traditional architectural treatments on the interior climate must be measured as it may be possible to find a group of urban bases and standards to control the thermal and climatic comfort for the residential areas. Our research considers urban and architectural bases to control the thermal comfort as they can be used to reach a suggested model for a residential compound which is suitable to the aforementioned standards and which achieves thermal comfort for the person inside their residence and city.
Presenters
Hala SirrorAssistant Professor, Architecture, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia Salma Dwidar
Associate Professor, Architecture, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia Amal Abdelsattar
Prince Sultan University
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design
KEYWORDS
Climate comfort,Environmental needs,Solar radiation,architectural treatments,residential areas
