Abstract
Current concerns focus on the need to reduce energy consumption in construction and over the lifespan of buildings. A major objective is to create affordable housing. However, reducing the energy needs of the present without harming the needs of future generations remains difficult to put into practice, especially at the level of habitats in arid zones. In this research, a housing design assistance process for building designers is proposed, with the aim of converging towards a global optimum for the correlation and integration of vernacular devices and strategies in an optimized way. This will allow the integration of energy performance indicators and user comfort, in order to ultimately optimize, for this case study, the morphogenesis of residential buildings based on the morphological structure of a proposed building in Biskra, Algeria. This last developed process is articulated on various combinations distinguished for the case of the integration of devices and strategies, which allow maximum energy saving while ensuring the comfort of the occupants. As part of this research, this integration constituted a major challenge and made it possible to achieve a reduction in energy ratio of up to 25.11% compared to the standard building and the objectives of the research.
Highlights
Creating comfortable living spaces by accounting for the local climate is at the heart of the architecture/environmental dialogue [1]
The first phase is to perform a bioclimatic analysis, whose objective is to: Determine the role that vernacular devices and strategies can play in relation to the research question; and Propose an original study framework that integrates the criteria and important characteristics identified during this bioclimatic analysis as cofactors that will affect the energy performance of future habitat within the area in question
This typology differs from the building type addressed in the context of the case study cited in the introductory section, which addresses the issue of passive ambient comfort and the interaction of vernacular strategies and devices in the design of habitat in arid zones
Summary
Creating comfortable living spaces by accounting for the local climate is at the heart of the architecture/environmental dialogue [1]. The present article covers the correlation of strategies and devices into the design of arid zone housing, in order to adapt the vernacular conceptual solutions in their entirety into the current habitat design practice and to measure the consequences of their integration in a simulated building on occupants’ thermal comfort and on that building’s energy consumption. The fourth section shows how to integrate and optimize the various types of vernacular devices and strategies developed for building design, based on the results of the bioclimatic analysis and taking into account both the energy aspects and occupants’. The sixth section offers a conclusion that illustrates and synthesizes the results obtained and provides perspectives for future research
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