PRELIMINARY RESULTS ON THE INFLUENCE OF BUILDING MORPHOLOGY ON INTERNAL TEMPERATURES IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS
Event Title
CIUL - Arquitetura dos Territórios Metropolitanos Contemporâneos 2020
Year (definitive publication)
2021
Language
English
Country
Portugal
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Abstract
The following paper is part of an ongoing research about designing and building for extreme
environments and climates. These environments are characterized by having physical
conditions that are too challenging for human life, including extreme temperatures, lack, or
excess, of humidity, high salinity, acidic pH, lack of oxygen and high radiation. This study
focuses essentially on extreme temperatures, using as examples the city of Yakutsk, in Russia,
and the city of Needles, in California, USA. The former is one of the coldest large cities in the
world, where the lowest temperature ever recorded was -64oC; in the latter, which like Death
Valley is known for extreme heat during the summer, the highest recorded temperature is
+52oC, with a record of +38 oC for the minimum temperature. The purpose of this study is to
understand how a building’s morphology, represented by the shape form factor, influences the
behaviour of the internal environment and its energy performance. This is achieved through
two benchmarks: the variation of the internal free-floating temperature and energy demands for
comfort temperatures. The basic shape used in this assessment is a prism with a set of 10 size
variations. The results were obtained from computational simulations using energy
performance design tools such as LadyBug and HoneyBee, plug-ins of visual programming
software Grasshopper, in Rhinoceros3D. Energy simulation engine is EnergyPlus.
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Keywords
Extreme Environments,Building Morphology,Extreme Temperatures,Energy Design,Energy Simulation