Effect of staggered housing layout on internal airflow of houses in Malaysia

The paper presents the airflow studies due to staggered layout at proposed new terrace housing concept in Malaysia. The importance of internal airflow to thermal comfort and indoor air quality of the terrace houses is indisputable (Hui,1998). The internal airflow contributes to cool the human body t...

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Main Authors:	Abdul Majid, Noor Hanita, Hokoi, Shuichi, Sapian, Abdul Razak
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2007
Subjects:	NA100 Architecture and the state
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/29047/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/29047/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/29047/1/effect_of_staggered.pdf

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spelling	iium-290472013-09-26T07:57:47Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/29047/ Effect of staggered housing layout on internal airflow of houses in Malaysia Abdul Majid, Noor Hanita Hokoi, Shuichi Sapian, Abdul Razak NA100 Architecture and the state The paper presents the airflow studies due to staggered layout at proposed new terrace housing concept in Malaysia. The importance of internal airflow to thermal comfort and indoor air quality of the terrace houses is indisputable (Hui,1998). The internal airflow contributes to cool the human body through evaporation process and indoor air quality through air exchange in the internal spaces. this research suggests that the staggered layout as implemented in the traditional villages is important to facilitate airflow and consequently improve the thermal conditioned of the internal spaces (Lim, 1987). The field data of the parameters related to thermal comfort at the Malay traditional houses and existing terrace houses are used as a basis for comparison on the performance of the airflow at the new proposed layout. Verification of the new proposed concept is done through airflow simulation using CFD method (Abdul Razak and Nurul Asyikin, 2004). Airflow is chosen as an indicator due to its imperative contribution to thermal comfort in the hot humid climate. the research found some improvement to the airflow performance that is foreseen to be a positive contributor to the thermal comfort and indoor air quality performance at the new proposed terrace housing concept. 2007 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/29047/1/effect_of_staggered.pdf Abdul Majid, Noor Hanita and Hokoi, Shuichi and Sapian, Abdul Razak (2007) Effect of staggered housing layout on internal airflow of houses in Malaysia. In: 24th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA 2007), 22-24 November 2007, National University Singapore, Singapore. http://www.plea-arch.org/ARCHIVE/2007/html/DP0168.xml
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spellingShingle	NA100 Architecture and the state Abdul Majid, Noor Hanita Hokoi, Shuichi Sapian, Abdul Razak Effect of staggered housing layout on internal airflow of houses in Malaysia
description	The paper presents the airflow studies due to staggered layout at proposed new terrace housing concept in Malaysia. The importance of internal airflow to thermal comfort and indoor air quality of the terrace houses is indisputable (Hui,1998). The internal airflow contributes to cool the human body through evaporation process and indoor air quality through air exchange in the internal spaces. this research suggests that the staggered layout as implemented in the traditional villages is important to facilitate airflow and consequently improve the thermal conditioned of the internal spaces (Lim, 1987). The field data of the parameters related to thermal comfort at the Malay traditional houses and existing terrace houses are used as a basis for comparison on the performance of the airflow at the new proposed layout. Verification of the new proposed concept is done through airflow simulation using CFD method (Abdul Razak and Nurul Asyikin, 2004). Airflow is chosen as an indicator due to its imperative contribution to thermal comfort in the hot humid climate. the research found some improvement to the airflow performance that is foreseen to be a positive contributor to the thermal comfort and indoor air quality performance at the new proposed terrace housing concept.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Abdul Majid, Noor Hanita Hokoi, Shuichi Sapian, Abdul Razak
author_facet	Abdul Majid, Noor Hanita Hokoi, Shuichi Sapian, Abdul Razak
author_sort	Abdul Majid, Noor Hanita
title	Effect of staggered housing layout on internal airflow of houses in Malaysia
title_short	Effect of staggered housing layout on internal airflow of houses in Malaysia
title_full	Effect of staggered housing layout on internal airflow of houses in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Effect of staggered housing layout on internal airflow of houses in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Effect of staggered housing layout on internal airflow of houses in Malaysia
title_sort	effect of staggered housing layout on internal airflow of houses in malaysia
publishDate	2007
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/29047/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/29047/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/29047/1/effect_of_staggered.pdf
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Effect of staggered housing layout on internal airflow of houses in Malaysia

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