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Architectural Considerations For Composite Climate

This document discusses architectural considerations for buildings in composite climates, which experience hot/dry, warm/humid, and cold conditions throughout the year. It recommends designing for all climates but focusing on one. Suggestions include decreasing exposed surface area through orientation and shape, increasing thermal resistance with roof/wall insulation, increasing thermal capacity with thicker walls, increasing buffer space like balconies, decreasing air exchange, increasing shading from walls/trees, and increasing surface reflectivity with pale colors. Climate details for a sample composite zone are provided, along with considerations like orientation, water bodies, shading, projections, openings, vegetation, and courtyards. Roof pond systems and insulation are also discussed.

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Architectural Considerations For Composite Climate

This document discusses architectural considerations for buildings in composite climates, which experience hot/dry, warm/humid, and cold conditions throughout the year. It recommends designing for all climates but focusing on one. Suggestions include decreasing exposed surface area through orientation and shape, increasing thermal resistance with roof/wall insulation, increasing thermal capacity with thicker walls, increasing buffer space like balconies, decreasing air exchange, increasing shading from walls/trees, and increasing surface reflectivity with pale colors. Climate details for a sample composite zone are provided, along with considerations like orientation, water bodies, shading, projections, openings, vegetation, and courtyards. Roof pond systems and insulation are also discussed.

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COMPOSITE CLIMATE

ARCHITECTURAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR COMPOSITE CLIMATE


INTRODUCTION

THE COMPOSITE CLIMATE ZONE COVERS THE CENTRAL PART OF INDIA.


THIS CLIMATIC ZONE IS NOT NORMAL AS SEEN IN HOT AND DRY OR ANY
OTHER CLIMATIC ZONES.
FOR A HALF YEAR IT COULD DISPLAY THE FOLLOWING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
1. HOT AND DRY
2. WARM AND HUMID
3. COLD CLIMATE
WE WILL SEE HOW TO DESIGN FOR ALL THIS CLIMATES, BUT WE WILL
CONSIDER ONLY ONE CLIMATE FROM THESE AND FOCUS ON THAT.
AIM AND DESIGN CRITERIAS & SOLUTIONS
DECREASE EXPOSED SURFACE AREA
• ORIENTATION AND SHAPE OF THE BUILDING. USE OF TREES AS WIND BARRIERS.

INCREASE THERMAL RESISTANCE


• ROOF AND WALL INSULATION

INCREASE THERMAL CAPACITY


• THICKER WALLS

INCREASE BUFFER SPACE


• BALCONIES

DECREASE AIT EXCHANGE RATE


• WEATHER STRIPPING

INCREASE SHADING
• WALLS, GLASS SURFACES PROTECTED BY OVERHANG TREES

INCREASE SURFACE REFLECTIVITY


• PALE COLOR
CLIMATE DETAILS

SUMMER WINTER
PRECIPITATIO RELATIVE CLOUDY AVERAGE
TEMPERATUR REMPERATUR CLEAR SKIES
N HUMIDITY DAYS WIND SPEED
E E

VARIES B/W
32-450C [DAY 10-250C [DAY 20-25% [DRY 8-10 DAYS IN A 20-22 DAYS IN
500- 3-5 Km/h
TIME] TIME] TIME] MONTH A MONTH
1300mm/YEAR

27-320C [NIGHT 4-100C [NIGHT 55-95%[WET


TIME] TIME] PERIODS]
• THE INTENSITY OF SOLAR RADIATION IS VERY HIGH IN
SUMMER.
• IN MONSOONS, THE INTENSITY IS LOW WITH PREDOMINANTLY
DIFFUSE RADIATION.
• THE REGION RECEIVES STRONG WIND DURING MONSOONS AND
COLD WINDS FROM SOUTH-EAST AND NORTH EAST
RESPECTIVELY.
• THE SKY IS USUALLY CLEAR IN WINTER AND FREQUENTLY
HAZY IN SUMMER.
CLIMATE CONSIDERATION

• ORIENTATION
• WATER BODIES
• WINDOW SHADES
• PROJECTIONS
EXTERNAL AND • JALIS
INTERNAL
CONSIDERATIONS
• WALL THICHNESS
• OPENINGS
• VEGITATION
• COURTYARD
• ROOF AND WALL INSULATION
ORIENTATION WATER BODIES
• THE ORIENTATION OF HOUSE SHOULD • WATER ABSORBS RELATIVELY LARGE
BE SUCH THAT, PENETRATION OF THE AMOUNTS OF RADIATION. IT ASO
SUN RAYS MAXIMUM IN WINTER AND ALLOW EVAPORATIVE COOLING. AS A
MINIMUM IN SUMMER. PROPER RESULST, DURING THE DAYTIME AREAS
ORIENTATION ALSO HELPS IN AROUND WATER BODIES ARE
RECEIVING NATURAL LIGHT AND GENERALLY COOLER. AT NIGHT,
VENTILATION. HOWEVER, WATER BODIES RELEASE
RELATIVELY LARGE AMOUNT OF HEAR
TO THE SURROUNDING.
WINDOW SHADES PROJECTIONS
• WINDOW SHADES SHOULD CUT OFF • LARGE PROJECTING EAVES AND WIDE
SUN IN THE SUMMER BUT ALLOW THE VERENDAHS ARE NEEDED IN
SUN IN THE UNDERHEATED PERIOD. COMPOSITE CLIMATE AS OUT-DOOR
FURTHER, THE WINDOW SECTION LIVING AREAS, TO REDUCE SKY GLARE,
SHOULD ENHANCE AIR VELOCITY KEEP OUT THE RAIN AND PROVIDE
WHILE STILL ACTING AS SHADE. THIS SHADE.
COULD BE ACHIEVED EITHER BY
INTRODUCING A PLANTER AT THE
WINDOW SILL OR ELSE BY ADDING
SMALLER SHADES AT THE GLAZING.
JALIS WALL THICHNESS
• JALIS ON THE OUTER FAÇADE OF THE • WALLS WORK AS AN INSULATOR OF
BUILDING HELPS IN COOLING, SHADING HEAT SO THAT THEY DON’T ALLOW
AND VENTILATION. HEAT TO ATTACK INSIDE THE BUILDING
IN SUMMERS AND TO SPREAD OUTSIDE
FROM THE INSIDE ON WINTERS. THAT I
SWHY THICKNESS OF WALLS ARE
PROVIDED MORE THAN USUAL AT SOME
PLACES.

THE GENERAL BUILDING MATERIALS:


BRICK & STONE MASONRY. CONCRETE
SLAB, STONE WALL OF 400-500mm IN
THICKNESS.
OPENINGS

SIZE OF OPENING POSITION OF CONTROL OF


OPENING OPENINGS
A small inlet opening with a large air
velocity. The best arrangement is full In building air movement must be
wall openings on both the sides. With A gap between the building face and
ensured through the space mostly canopy would ensure a downward
adjustable sashes or closing devices
used by occupants; through the pressure, thus a flow is directed into
which can assist in channeling the air
living zone [up to 2m height] the living zones.
flow in the required direction,
following the change of wind.
VEGITATION COURTYARD
• DECIDUOUS TREES, CREEPERS AND • COURTYARDS SHOULD BE DESIGNED IN
VINES PROVIDE SHADE WHEN NEEDED SUCH A WAY SO AS TO ALLOW SUN
AND ALOS ALLOW THE SUN RAYS TO PENETRATION DURING THE WINTER
PENETRATE INSIDE IN THE COOL MONTHS, BUT PROVIDES SHADING IN
SEASON WHEN THEY LOOSE THEIR THE HOT SEASON.
FOLIAGE.
ROOF AND WALL INSULATION

• PLACED AT THE OUTER SURFACE OF WALLS AND ROOFS AND HELPS RETAIN
COOL IN SUMMER HEAT IN WINTER. THIS CAN CREATE A MAJOR IMPACT ON
INDOOR THERMAL COMFORT OF THE BUILDING.

ROOF POND
THE ROOF POND SYSTEM REQUIRES A BODY OF WATER TO BE LOCATED IN THE
ROOF, PROTECTED CONTROLLED BY EXTERIOR MOVABLE INSULATION.
REFERENCE

• WWW.SLIDESHARE.NET
• IJRESM.PDF
• DESIGNGUIDELINE_DRAFT.PDF
THANK
YOU!!!

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