Research on indoor thermal environment evaluation and thermal adaptation in winter of Japanese wood-framed detached houses

Abstract

Indoor space is the place where human beings live, and how to meet people's indoor thermal comfort needs in the context of energy scarcity is one of the important issues for sustainable development of buildings, and the evaluation of the indoor thermal environment has become the key to it. In the case of Japanese wood-framed detached houses, which contain different types of space forms, it is difficult to accurately apply the existing thermal environment evaluation results. In this study, detached houses in Kitakyushu City, Japan, were selected as the research object, and continuous measurements and subjective questionnaires of the indoor thermal environments were conducted based on three modes of no heating, continuous heating, and intermittent heating, in order to grasp the current information of the thermal comfort in detached houses. The results showed that: 1. The average indoor temperatures in both Washitsu and Yoshitsu were lower than the human thermal comfort range; 2. The thermally neutral temperature of 15.9 °C in Washitsu was lower than that of 17.7 °C in Yoshitsu, and the acceptable temperature zones were (14.3–17.5 °C) and (15.6–18.9 °C), respectively; 3. Develop modified models (PMVe) and adaptive predicted mean vote (aPMV) model suitable for thermal comfort evaluation of detached houses in Japan. The results of this study will help to improve the indoor thermal environment and thermal comfort evaluation system of Japanese detached houses, and provide a useful reference for the study of the renewal and renovation of houses in this area.