Thermal Comfort in East Campus Center of ITB Bandung

Abstract

The campus center is the building regarded as the center of student activities. It’s the typical building commonly found on campuses. The building is specifically intended for the students to entertain and socialize themselves. The building can also function as the center for small-scale conference conferences; the meeting is leased to student communities and local organizations. By various activities taking place in the building, it’s demanded to meet the need for the users’ thermal comfort to realize all of their programs following their objectives respectively. The study on ITB Campus Center Building aims to encourage students to be familiar with the influence of the building orientation, dimensions, shape, material, configuration, and the opening type that affect the space’s air circulation. This research used a quantitative descriptive method approach by measuring the temperature and humidity through the gauge for temperature and humidity and an anemometer for wind speed. It identifies the study object’s thermal comfort based on the PMV Index in the CBE Thermal Comfort Tools. And from the results of our research, it can be concluded that the building has fulfilled most aspects of thermal comfort.