Influence Of The Climate On Architecture

Imagine if there was no home to live, we were not assigned this topic to write. It is obvious to have different techniques and materials in every country and culture. It is different even in the same country, but different city or state; countryside and in a capital city. It is some advantage and disadvantage to the environment when a country made a home. There are two main differences between my country, Ethiopia and in the United States in order to the Materials and the benefits to the environment.

Throughout history we can see that housing has followed certain trends. These trends are most heavily influenced by the technology available to the public at that time. As can be seen throughout history, living conditions in general have improved, as there are more access to resources and building technologies. Although the world we live in has changed greatly, the basic type of shelter needed for everyday life and the resources needed to construct them has changed very little. This is why we can see a lot of parallels between the ways people live throughout history. However, the biggest change is in the way we construct buildings and especially housing. History has taught us that as time goes by, technology increases, making it easier for us to build structures. For example the Egyptians relied solely on Adobe (sun dried mud bricks) and slave labor for construction. Then came the development of hydraulic lime mortar, the Treadwell cranes (which is a wooden, human powered hoisting and lowering device) as well as the start of domes and arches, as structural components in architecture. Followed by the Middle Ages, which saw a huge emphasis on the construction of massive public buildings such as Cathedrals, Churches, Fortifications

One effective form of air conditioning, which is fitting for less humid states of Australia and is based on the evaporation of water, is evaporative cooling. When water evaporates, this system absorbs warmth from its surroundings, which then cools the surrounding environment down. These sorts of units are usually mounted on roofs. Evaporative

In order to understand the word ‘thermal’ within a building, then SHGC which is solar heat gain coefficients had to be known to known the property of thermal insulation and conductivity in a whole manner. Solar heat gain coefficient is widely use in the United State in designing building. SHGC may refer to the transmittance of solar energy of windows or even walls, every object can be evaluate by using solar heat gain coefficient method by knowing the properties of each material. If a material have high solar heat gain coefficient, then the material is a good absorbent of solar heat. For material that is black in colour, inevitably it absorb heat faster because of the colour doesn’t reflect the wavelength that comes directly from the source of light. So, low-e components of a building that comes with low solar heat gain coefficient will reflect and keep heat source that came from sun away from the house and that will probably makes a house cooler. Solar heat gain coefficient usually dealt with windows that possess a low-e property. Low-e may regard to the emissivity of one’s material. Nowadays window mostly is transparent, and that makes it vulnerable for sunlight to penetrate easily into a house without any reflection. We have to be notice that if a window is place facing the unsuitable direction such as west or east, it will have an adverse effect towards the thermal comfort of a house especially terraced house in Malaysia that cant undergoes renovation due to the

The first step that Holst Architects took to resolve heating system in the building was tightly sealing the envelope of it. In order to make the building efficient, the façade had to be completely sealed to guaranty no heated air leakage. They tested a

The heating requirements of CH ₂ are expected to be minimal as there will be enough heat generated by lighting, equipment and the occupants of the building. The heat generated is anticipated to maintain the preferred thermal comfort level. Some traditional heating may be needed during winter, which will be generated through a gas heating system of from heat created by gas fired mirco turbine. Figure 2 shows how the north side heating and cooling

The best benefit of this kind of heating will you gain more control over the temperature of each space.

Prehistoric humans quickly learned to build shelters that would protect them from rain, snow and other elements of nature. Early roof designs were simple and were often little more than branches placed atop a frame; such shelters were intended for temporary use, so not a lot of effort went into the construction. However, as humans began to embrace permanent agricultural settlements, they began to develop architectural styles that were typically dependent on the local climate and available materials. Many of the roofing materials and styles in use today can be traced back over the centuries.

With the climate’s influence on houses in a tropical urban environment, it is undeniable that there is a substantive design issue for modern North Queensland. Tropical climates affect urban housing in several aspects such as heat, ventilation, and energy use. Therefore, it is necessary for Queenslanders to understand the effects that tropical heat has on their houses and the best way to minimize them. Consequently, this report has three main sections. The first section outlines the implications of tropical heat on house design, starting with early adaptations to the North Queensland climate and comparing them with modern house models. Then, it defines the basic climate design problems, focusing on housing design, energy, and ventilation. After

As time moves forward, the design for better and more sophisticated envelope buildings will continue to be important at all the levels of construction. Basically a building envelope is the separation between the interior and the exterior environment with the inclusion of air, light, heat, water and noise transfer resistances. The building envelope acts as a thermal barrier, because it regulates the temperature of the inside, while the outside temperature can be different. Having a great envelope design can provide more effective results on any type of climate. This is one of the reasons on why building managers are focusing more in having a great envelope design, especially now that every company wants to reduce energy costs and be more energy friendly.

INTRODUCTION How does the changes in society, affect the typology of a building? And how does these changes in the typology affect the society that their built in? The changes in society can spring from factors such as; time, location, and culture. Through these variation in society, a typology is able to change and grow, to be able to perform the same function better and easier. In this essay I will prove that these variation in society have an effect on a typology, such as the ‘red brick household’, and the possible effects these changes to the typology have on the society.

The inefficient homes in the UK have catastrophic effects on global warming. The UK needs to become more energy efficient as at the moment it emits a large amount of greenhouse gases which risk dangerous climate change. The retrofitting of the brick three storey terraced town house is necessary in order to comply with the legislations set out by parliament in the UK Climate Change Act (2008) or if the house falls under the private rented sector it must comply with the Energy Act 2011.

The normal temperature inside a building is 19-21 degrees. However there are two diverse thermal elements that influence the temperature of the room and human comfort; they are physical and individual elements. The physical variables incorporate; air temperature, mean radiation temperature, relative humidity and air speed. The air temperature within a building will change contingent upon the temperature outside the building and the k-values of the materials used to create the walls. K-values are the values that all materials have which indicates how great of insulators the materials are, the lower the k-values the more effective the materials are at holding heat. The u-value is the thing that overall heat resistance of the materials are. Air temperature is likewise influenced by the humans inside the building and the movement they are doing.

“Human houses should not be like boxes, blazing in the sun, nor should we outrage the Machine by trying to make dwelling places too complementary to Machinery. Any building for humane purposes should be an elemental, sympathetic feature of the ground, complementary to its nature-environment, belonging by kinship to the terrain.”

Herzog makes ‘regularity and flexibility’ another architectural theme that is seen just as valuable to energy saving throughout the house. The plan of the house is designed to distribute or allocate space proportionally, which is layered via an abstract grid. Which can be combined in different ways either horizontally or vertically.