Shastry, Vivek and Mani, Monto and Tenorio, Rosangela (2014) Impacts of modern transitions on thermal comfort in vernacular dwellings in warm-humid climate of Sugganahalli (India). In: INDOOR AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT, 23 (4). pp. 543-564.
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Sugganahalli, a rural vernacular community in a warm-humid region in South India, is under transition towards adopting modern construction practices. Vernacular local building elements like rubble walls and mud roofs are given way to burnt brick walls and reinforced cement concrete (RCC)/tin roofs. Over 60% of Indian population is rural, and implications of such transitions on thermal comfort and energy in buildings are crucial to understand. Vernacular architecture evolves adopting local resources in response to the local climate adopting passive solar designs. This paper investigates the effectiveness of passive solar elements on the indoor thermal comfort by adopting modern climate-responsive design strategies. Dynamic simulation models validated by measured data have also been adopted to determine the impact of the transition from vernacular to modern material-configurations. Age-old traditional design considerations were found to concur with modern understanding into bio-climatic response and climate-responsiveness. Modern transitions were found to increase the average indoor temperatures in excess of 7 degrees C. Such transformations tend to shift the indoor conditions to a psychrometric zone that is likely to require active air-conditioning. Also, the surveyed thermal sensation votes were found to lie outside the extended thermal comfort boundary for hot developing countries provided by Givoni in the bio-climatic chart.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | INDOOR AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT |
| Publisher: | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD |
| Additional Information: | Copy right for this article belongs to the SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 1 OLIVERS YARD, 55 CITY ROAD, LONDON EC1Y 1SP, ENGLAND |
| Keywords: | Vernacular; Modern transitions; Thermal comfort; Bio-climatic chart; Climate response |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Centre for Sustainable Technologies (formerly ASTRA) |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Sep 2014 06:26 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Sep 2014 06:26 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/49772 |
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