Potentials of small garden of double storey linked-houses: thermal performance and healthy environment

Linked-houses is a housing type that comes with its front yard and backyard. However, house extension and renovation would used-up these spaces. Hence its potentials as green spaces may have been ignored. Some occupants may ‘abandoned' the front yard and backyard and not using them actively. Th...

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Main Author: Abu Bakar, Aniza
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
English
Published: 2016
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description Linked-houses is a housing type that comes with its front yard and backyard. However, house extension and renovation would used-up these spaces. Hence its potentials as green spaces may have been ignored. Some occupants may ‘abandoned' the front yard and backyard and not using them actively. This paper seeks to study the effect of a green front yard and backyard on the thermal performance of the indoor spaces of linked-houses by comparing the air temperature readings of two units of double-storey linked-houses located in the urban area of Kuala Lumpur. The observation done indicates that heavily planted front yard and backyard gives positive effects on the outdoor and indoor thermal performance of the unit, as well as healthy environment – physically and socially.
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spelling iium-550152017-02-22T06:18:55Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/55015/ Potentials of small garden of double storey linked-houses: thermal performance and healthy environment Abu Bakar, Aniza NA100 Architecture and the state NA9053.R4 City planning Linked-houses is a housing type that comes with its front yard and backyard. However, house extension and renovation would used-up these spaces. Hence its potentials as green spaces may have been ignored. Some occupants may ‘abandoned' the front yard and backyard and not using them actively. This paper seeks to study the effect of a green front yard and backyard on the thermal performance of the indoor spaces of linked-houses by comparing the air temperature readings of two units of double-storey linked-houses located in the urban area of Kuala Lumpur. The observation done indicates that heavily planted front yard and backyard gives positive effects on the outdoor and indoor thermal performance of the unit, as well as healthy environment – physically and socially. 2016-09 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/55015/1/Potentials%20of%20Small%20Garden%20-aniza.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/55015/2/AHP%20program%20itinerary.pdf Abu Bakar, Aniza (2016) Potentials of small garden of double storey linked-houses: thermal performance and healthy environment. In: National Seminar on Abandoned Housing Projects: Causes & Solutions, 7th-8th Sept. 2016, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished) http://www.iium.edu.my/iiibf/events/national-seminar-%E2%80%9Cabandoned-housing-projects-causes-solutions%E2%80%9D
spellingShingle NA100 Architecture and the state
NA9053.R4 City planning
Abu Bakar, Aniza
Potentials of small garden of double storey linked-houses: thermal performance and healthy environment
title Potentials of small garden of double storey linked-houses: thermal performance and healthy environment
title_full Potentials of small garden of double storey linked-houses: thermal performance and healthy environment
title_fullStr Potentials of small garden of double storey linked-houses: thermal performance and healthy environment
title_full_unstemmed Potentials of small garden of double storey linked-houses: thermal performance and healthy environment
title_short Potentials of small garden of double storey linked-houses: thermal performance and healthy environment
title_sort potentials of small garden of double storey linked-houses: thermal performance and healthy environment
topic NA100 Architecture and the state
NA9053.R4 City planning
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/55015/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/55015/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/55015/1/Potentials%20of%20Small%20Garden%20-aniza.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/55015/2/AHP%20program%20itinerary.pdf