Courtyard as a passive cooling design strategy in Malaysian linked houses / Mohd Riza Ismail

Sixty percent of Malaysians prefer to stay in linked houses for reasons of location, space and aesthetic. Most of these houses are installed with mechanical cooling and air circulating fans for thermal comfort instead of a more passive means. There are less demand for courtyard linked houses althoug...

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Main Author: Ismail, Mohd Riza
Format: Book Section
Language:English
Published: Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2017
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19770/
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description Sixty percent of Malaysians prefer to stay in linked houses for reasons of location, space and aesthetic. Most of these houses are installed with mechanical cooling and air circulating fans for thermal comfort instead of a more passive means. There are less demand for courtyard linked houses although the courtyard could hypothetically to be the answer for a passive cooling design strategy. Hence, the aim of this research is to explore the possibilities of enhancing indoor thermal comfort condition by determining the effectiveness of courtyard as a passive cooling building element. The objectives of this thesis are: i) to study the types of courtyard configuration in existing linked houses; ii) to investigate the environmental condition of the courtyard and its effect to the indoor thermal comfort; iii) to explore the importance of courtyard configuration in providing good natural ventilation and iv) to determine the best courtyard configuration that create best indoor thermal comfort of a linked house. This study investigated two similar urban linked houses (with and without internal courtyard) in terms of size and specifications in Shah Alam and Klang…
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spelling uitm-197702018-06-07T07:30:18Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19770/ Courtyard as a passive cooling design strategy in Malaysian linked houses / Mohd Riza Ismail Ismail, Mohd Riza Malaysia Sixty percent of Malaysians prefer to stay in linked houses for reasons of location, space and aesthetic. Most of these houses are installed with mechanical cooling and air circulating fans for thermal comfort instead of a more passive means. There are less demand for courtyard linked houses although the courtyard could hypothetically to be the answer for a passive cooling design strategy. Hence, the aim of this research is to explore the possibilities of enhancing indoor thermal comfort condition by determining the effectiveness of courtyard as a passive cooling building element. The objectives of this thesis are: i) to study the types of courtyard configuration in existing linked houses; ii) to investigate the environmental condition of the courtyard and its effect to the indoor thermal comfort; iii) to explore the importance of courtyard configuration in providing good natural ventilation and iv) to determine the best courtyard configuration that create best indoor thermal comfort of a linked house. This study investigated two similar urban linked houses (with and without internal courtyard) in terms of size and specifications in Shah Alam and Klang… Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2017 Book Section PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19770/1/ABS_MOHD%20RIZA%20ISMAIL%20TDRA%20VOL%2011%20IGS%2017.pdf Ismail, Mohd Riza (2017) Courtyard as a passive cooling design strategy in Malaysian linked houses / Mohd Riza Ismail. (2017) In: The Doctoral Research Abstracts. IGS Biannual Publication, 11 (11). Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM, Shah Alam.
spellingShingle Malaysia
Ismail, Mohd Riza
Courtyard as a passive cooling design strategy in Malaysian linked houses / Mohd Riza Ismail
title Courtyard as a passive cooling design strategy in Malaysian linked houses / Mohd Riza Ismail
title_full Courtyard as a passive cooling design strategy in Malaysian linked houses / Mohd Riza Ismail
title_fullStr Courtyard as a passive cooling design strategy in Malaysian linked houses / Mohd Riza Ismail
title_full_unstemmed Courtyard as a passive cooling design strategy in Malaysian linked houses / Mohd Riza Ismail
title_short Courtyard as a passive cooling design strategy in Malaysian linked houses / Mohd Riza Ismail
title_sort courtyard as a passive cooling design strategy in malaysian linked houses / mohd riza ismail
topic Malaysia
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19770/