An investigation on climate responsive design strategies of vernacular housing in Vietnam

Nguyen, Anh Tuan; Tran, Q.; Tran, Duc; Reiter, Sigrid

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.04.019

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“…Poor building design implies high energy demand for cooling and heating [15], while the bioclimatic design of buildings can improve their thermal performance. Bioclimatic design of buildings under hot and humid conditions has been studied in various papers, which provide interesting recommendations [16][17][18][19][20].…”

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Thermal comfort and comparison of some parameters coming from hospitals and shopping centers under natural ventilation: The case of Madagascar Island

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Ricciardi

Reiter

et al. 2017

Journal of Building Engineering

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Nowadays, in several countries in the tropical islands of Indian Ocean including Madagascar island, Comores island, Seychelles island and Mayotte, no adapted and regulated buildings standards exist. This entails enormous losses for their government, a great urban disorder, and facilitates the anarchic constructions. The human health depends essentially on the internal climate. Several actions should be taken to propose solutions to this problem. The purpose of this research is to develop a database on thermal comfort in naturally ventilated buildings in order to improve indoor air, mainly in hospitals and shopping centers in the largest island of the Indian Ocean. There is not enough data regarding comfort in built environments in this region. Experimental and subjective results of field study carried out in 5 big hospitals and 50 small and big shopping centers, distributed in 25 districts of urban areas in Northern Madagascar are presented. The adaptive approach was adapted for this purpose.A specific questionnaire was elaborated for the investigation according to ISO 7730 and 10551. A total, of 400 people were investigated during rainy and dry seasons. This paper discusses the influence of gender, clothing, activities, voters' mind state and occupants' control strategies on adaptive comfort assessment and various comfort parameters calculated for these buildings. In both studied places, the lower and upper acceptable temperature for 80% of the voters were 23.2°C and 26.8°C, while the 90% of the customers and patients reported a comfortable temperature range of 24.5°C-26.2°C. This will help to define guide lines for constructing more comfortable buildings in Madagascar and other countries on the Indian Ocean.

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Thermal comfort and comparison of some parameters coming from hospitals and shopping centers under natural ventilation: The case of Madagascar Island

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Reiter

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Journal of Building Engineering

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“…One approach is to use vernacular designs to provide comfortable conditions, successful examples of which are found, for instance, in Vietnam (126) and India (127). Another is to allow natural ventilation, with the use of part-time and partial-space indoor climate conditioning, using mechanical systems for the remaining needs only when passive approaches cannot meet comfort demands.…”

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Beyond Technology: Demand-Side Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation

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Fernandez

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Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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The assessment literature on climate change solutions to date has emphasized technologies and options based on cost-effectiveness analysis. However, many solutions to climate change mitigation misalign with such analytical frameworks. Here, we examine demand-side solutions, a crucial class of mitigation options that go beyond technological specification and costbenefit analysis. To do so, we synthesize demand-side mitigation options in the urban, building, transport, and agricultural sectors. We also highlight the specific nature of demand-side solutions in the context of development. We then discuss key analytical considerations to integrate demand-side options into overarching assessments on mitigation. Such a framework would include infrastructure solutions that interact with endogenous preference formation. Both hard infrastructures, such as the built environment, and soft infrastructures, such as habits and norms, shape behavior and as a consequence offer significant potential for reducing overall energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. We conclude that systemic infrastructural and behavioral change will likely be a necessary component of a transition to a low-carbon society.

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“…The simulation results of the energy models suggested that considering traditions seen in ancient vernacular architecture as an approach to improving building energy performance is a worthwhile endeavor and a scientific guidance can help enhance the performance. In the study conducted by Nguyen et al [25], six old houses in rural and urban areas in Vietnam, were investigated to understand the climatic design strategies employed and their effectiveness in maintaining human comfort and health. The results of this study indicated that vernacular housing in Vietnam is creatively adapted to the local natural conditions and uses various climate responsive strategies.…”

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Numerical assessment of night ventilation impact on the thermal comfort of vernacular buildings

2017

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Night ventilation, is one of the most effective passive cooling techniques that may contribute to the improvement of the occupants thermal comfort conditions. Despite the justified effectiveness of night ventilation, few studies quantified its influence on the thermal comfort of vernacular buildings, especially under warm dominant climates. The aim of this study is the investigation of the impact of night ventilation on the thermal comfort of vernacular buildings under summer dominant environmental conditions. The subjects under investigation was one traditional buildings in the city of Nicosia in Cyprus. In terms of this study numerical analysis regarding the thermal comfort of the investigated buildings was performed by employing Energy Plus and the flow solver of Design Builder. The indoor operative temperature distribution, the indoor air velocity and a thermal comfort related index were identified in selected thermal zones of the examined building using night ventilation. The results of this study quantified the potential temperature decrease that can result on vernacular buildings due to the use of night ventilation and revealed some restrictions with regard to the allowed percentage of the opening sizes towards achieving optimal thermal conditions in space. This study aspires to provide useful insight regarding the importance of humans' behavior in terms of enabling night ventilation to vernacular buildings, as well as to con-tribute to the ongoing scientific discussion on this subject.

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An investigation on climate responsive design strategies of vernacular housing in Vietnam

Cited by 143 publications

References 14 publications

Thermal comfort and comparison of some parameters coming from hospitals and shopping centers under natural ventilation: The case of Madagascar Island

Thermal comfort and comparison of some parameters coming from hospitals and shopping centers under natural ventilation: The case of Madagascar Island

Beyond Technology: Demand-Side Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation

Numerical assessment of night ventilation impact on the thermal comfort of vernacular buildings

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