BUILDING SCIENCE 1

INTRODUCTION

Passive design does not require mechanical heating or cooling. Buildings that are passively designed take advantage of natural climate to maintain thermal comfort. This project is to identify and define the principles of heat transfer in relation to building and people. Understanding of what is thermal comfort and analyzing the effect of thermal comfort factors in a person and in a space also can gained from this project.

OBJECTIVES

Site Visit to the selected green building which acquired at least 2 passive design strategies.
Identify 2 passive design strategies used for the building.
Analyzing the environment factors.
Explain the environment with passive design strategies.
Two A3 research poster

Group Member
Preston Liew Ru Ping
Benny Tan Shiowee
Woo Wen Jian
Nicolas Wong Xiao En
Yuan Khai Shien
Lee Yaue Shen

RESEARCH BOARD

INTRODUCTION

Throughout this project, I am able to use Revit and Ecotect to analyze and understand more about the sunpath, wind flow and how shading device affect the building. Besides that, I gain alot of knowledge about passive design such as egg-crate and stack ventilation. It really takes times for us to figure out how these softwares work and how these passive designs work in related to the building, however our effort is worth it and it helps alot in our future. Other than that, I also found out that different building material has different heat gain or thermal environment in a given space. This project has helped me in my studio final project as well, those knowledges about ventillation and sun path. Lastly, Rhombus is really a nice building for students to explore, its natural ventillation and shading device are cool enough to amaze people.