Comparative Study of Thermal Surface Analysis on High-Rise Apartment Facades with Colonial and Neo-Minimalist Style Design in Penang, Malaysia

Thermal Surface Analysis on Modern Apartment’s Façade in Penang, Malaysia

“…After snapping the façade thermal images by Fluke Ti20, all images were imported into SmartView® computer software. The software produces digital and infrared images to help the researched reading the thermal images information as shown in Figure 6 [13,14]. …”

“…Penang Island which is considered as the second most important state in Malaysia was selected for this study with two if high-rose buildings on the eastern coast of the island, the island overall has been under huge development for the last 3 decades, and the first high-rise building in the Penang was constructed in the 1960s [2,3]. [14][15]2017 In order to design in a tropical country like Malaysia, a good and efficient façade design should be provided by having an excellent, sufficient, and suitable shading device which will help to minimize the unnecessary sunlight penetration to penetrate into the house and increase the façade shading area which will lead to decrease the exposure to the direct sunlight [4,5]. Exposing to the direct sunlight causes heat transfer problem from the external façade walls into the indoor atmosphere [6][7][8][9], as results; it produces an uncomfortable condition because of increasing of the temperature which is the reason of an extra usage of air-conditioning to regain the required thermal comfortable [10].…”