Investigations on effect of the orientation on thermal comfort in terraced housing in Malaysia

Mohamed Ali Abdul Hussain Al-Obaidi and Peter Woods

International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, 2006, vol. 1, issue 2, 167-176

Abstract: The design of residential buildings has a significant impact on people's daily life. The ‘terrace house’ form constitutes the majority of the residential building stock in Malaysia. The lack of thermal comfort in terrace houses is mainly due to the poor thermal properties of the building materials and to design factors [1]. The evaluation is derived from a series of computer simulations using commercially available software. This paper concentrates on analysing the effect of the orientation of the existing case of a typical terrace house in Malaysia by finding the dynamic indoor air temperature for each orientation. Copyright , Manchester University Press.

Date: 2006
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