THE THINKER ARCHILOGS
CHRISTOPHER DAVID NG MAN KING
BUILDING SCIENCE 1 (ARC 2412)
PROJECT 1: HUMAN PERCEPTION OF COMFORT LEVEL
For this project, the main aim of it was to acquire the basic and fundamental understanding of Thermal Comfort within a Building with Analysing a space within a Residential Structure.
By studying the internal thermal performance of the Infrastructure, various factors and regulations were to be taken into consideration during this analysis session. Factors such as the Sunpath, the wind direction, internal temperature vs outside temperature, performing appliances within the area were to be taken into consideration.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Understanding of the term Thermal Comfort through a live practical exercise.
2. Ability to recognise the various factors affecting the thermal performance of the specified space.
3. Ability to take into deep consideration systematic factors such as the sun and the wind.
4. A better understanding of passive cooling design and basic building design.
5. A better understanding of cross ventilation and stack ventilation.
6. Ability to recognise high exposure issues and thus, designing unique shading device suited for the design itself by employing basic building techniques.
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PROJECT 2: INTEGRATION WITH ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO 3
This project is basically an application of what knowledge has been acquired from project one. At the only exception that the OTTV and RTTV calculation part has been included in this project as the objective of this project was to evaluate our own design and check whether it was within the requirements according to ASHRAE MS1525.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Ability to understand sun path and exposed facade in order to orientate the design in such a way to maximize natural lighting during day time.
2. Learning of how to orientate the building in order to maximize natural ventilation through cross ventilation and stack ventilation.
3. Ability to understand calculations for OTTV and RTTV.
4. Understanding of zoning in terms of natural ventilation and mechanical ventilation.
5. An indepth understanding of Basic Building Design and Passive Cooling design.
