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Thermal comfort analysis of earth-sheltered buildings: The case of meymand village, Iran |
Amirreza Khaksar1, Amir Tabadkani2(), Seyed Majid Mofidi Shemirani3, Aso Hajirasouli4, Saeed Banihashemi5, Shady Attia6 |
1. Department of Architecture, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran 2. School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront Campus, Australia 3. Iran University of Science and Technology, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tehran, Iran 4. School of Architecture and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Australia 5. Design & Built Environment School, University of Canberra, Australia 6. Sustainable Building Design Lab, Dept. UEE, Faculty of Applied Science, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium |
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Abstract Vernacular buildings are known for their localized passive settings to provide comfortable indoor environment without air conditioning systems. One alternative is the consistent ground temperature over the year that earth-sheltered envelopes take the benefit; however, ensuring annual indoor comfort might be challenging. Thus, this research monitors the indoor thermal indicators of 22 earth-sheltered buildings in Meymand, Iran with a warmdry climate. Furthermore, the observations are used to validate the simulation results through two outdoor and indoor environmental parameters, air temperature and relative humidity during the hottest period of the year. Findings indicated that the main thermal comfort differences among case studies were mainly due to their architectural layouts where the associated variables including length, width, height, orientation, window-to-wall ratio, and shading depth were optimized through a linkage between Ladybug-tools and Genetic Algorithm (GA) concerning adaptive thermal comfort model definition and could enhance the annual thermal comfort by 31%.
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Keywords
Earth-sheltered buildings
Adaptive thermal comfort
Building simulation
Optimization
Field measurement
Architectural context
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Corresponding Author(s):
Amir Tabadkani
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Issue Date: 29 December 2022
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