Thursday 2 July 2015
Project 1 : Analysing Passive Design Strategies
With no doubts, the job of an architect is to design buildings to provide shelter as well as comfort for dwellings. In 21st Century, dealing with thermal comfort is considered as a main task for architect in order to maintain the temperature within comfort zone while reducing the consumption of eletricity. Hence, this module has provided knowledge in terms of why we should provide passive design in our buidling and how should we apply it so that the building is habitable while cosumes low electricity.
The building that we choosen was KLIA2. It is definitely a building that full of passive and active design features. It has high performance of facade system, roof using reflective material,demand control ventilation with CO2 sensor. KLIA2 is really an interesting building that we have managed to differentiate active and passive design strategies and further study on it.
Upon finishing this project, I have learnt about the way to identify and define the principles of heat transfer in relation to building and people. Besides that, I am able to identify the thermal comfort factors in a person and in a space. Last but not least, the main idea that I gain from this module is that we s an future architect must take thermal comfort into consideration when designing a building.
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