Investigation of the Thermal Comfort Theory Extension in Chinese Low-Energy Dwellings in Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zone
With the rapid development of the Chinese economy, more and more new generation residential buildings have been constructed for the Chinese housing market with low-energy approaches.The paper will discuss the thermal comfort theory and its possible extension to Chinese low-energy dwellings within hot summer and cold winter (HSCW) zone.It also surveyed the potential discomfort settings in existing residential buildings in China, particularly in HSCW zone, and a balance between indoor thermal comfort and energy saving.In the study, a typical prototype of Chinese high-rise apartment is investigated and simulated in design builder.Two different construction materials are set up in the computer model.The results of two different scenarios are revealed in the paper, also using the linear regression analysis between air temperature radiant temperature, operative temperature, outside dry-bulb temperature and ”Predicted Mean Vote” (PMV).The discomfort of overheating is also displaying the significant of adaptive comfort in low-energy building in specifically HSCW zone of China.Furthermore, related technical essential of innovations are carried out on the layout design, building fabric intervention and indoor human activity for adaptive thermal comfort.
Thermal comfort Low-energy dwelling apartment Building simulation HSCW zone
Wang Xi Hasim Altan
School of Architecture, The University of Sheffield
国内会议
香港
英文
523-530
2011-07-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）