Comfortable Living Design for Vihara and Sim

Abstract

The research is a study and an analysis of the design for comfortable living in public building whichis an ordinary hall, or vihara in Chiang Mai and sim in Luang Prabang. The primary data indicated thesimilarity in location and topography, weather, climate, historical and social background. The field datacollection on the architectural and technical design concerning comfort, such as thermal and lightingcomfort, could be used for comparing factors affecting the buildings chosen for this study. It is found thatthe conventional design and the passive design using local intelligence can bring about the adaptation anddesign for the better comfort in the buildings and application of knowledge for the development of modernarchitectural design in Chiang Mai and Luang Prabang. The local intelligence for building design wascategorized as site selection, building orientation, building designs, shading devices and opening designs,building envelopes and materials, comfort designs, daylighting designs, user behaviors and otherconsiderations. The results of this research are able to confirm that local intelligence could be applied tomodern architectural design aimed at a combination with active design for much more efficiency in energyconservation at present.