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Frontiers of Architectural Research

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Front. Archit. Res.    2020, Vol. 9 Issue (2) : 350-369    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2019.12.001
Research Article
Improved indoor environment through optimised ventilator and furniture positioning: A case of slum rehabilitation housing, Mumbai, India
Ahana Sarkar1(), Ronita Bardhan1,2
1. Centre for Urban Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India
2. The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1PX, United Kingdom
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Abstract

This study optimized the ventilator and furniture location of a tenement unit in a low-income urban habitat to obtain maximum experiential indoor environmental quality (e- IEQ) over the breathing zone. Hypothetical interior layouts using a combination of the two design parameters of ventilator location and bed position were generated for optimizing the design layout. This layout could promote maximum indoor airflow and minimum indoor air temperature and contaminant concentration. In this study, an improved indoor environment is hypothesized to be attainable through improved natural ventilation and thermal performance in the occupied zones. A sequential methodology involving “parametric design modeling ecomputational simulationemultiobjective optimizationemulticriteria decision making”- based framework was selected. Results exhibited that the currently designed tenement unit had a poor indoor environment, whereas the hypothesized iterated layout “optimized design layout, scenario 3 (ODL 3)” derived from the optimization and decision-making algorithm performed effectively in providing e-IEQ. An increase in experiential indoor air velocity by 0.2 m/s and a decrease in temperature by 2 C were observed over the monitoring point in the ODL 3 considering the existing scenario. Therefore, this study can find a way toward the development of sustainable habitat design guidelines under upcoming slum redevelopment policies across the nation.

Keywords Ventilator      Furniture layout      Low-income tenement      Indoor environmental quality (IEQ)      Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)      Multiobjective multicriteria decision making (MCDM) optimization     
Corresponding Author(s): Ahana Sarkar   
Issue Date: 06 July 2020
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Ahana Sarkar,Ronita Bardhan. Improved indoor environment through optimised ventilator and furniture positioning: A case of slum rehabilitation housing, Mumbai, India[J]. Front. Archit. Res., 2020, 9(2): 350-369.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/foar/EN/10.1016/j.foar.2019.12.001
https://academic.hep.com.cn/foar/EN/Y2020/V9/I2/350
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