Climatic Design Procedures detailed syllabus for Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the B.Arch students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Bachelor of Architecture 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit B.Arch 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to B.Arch Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of climatic design procedures is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
SITE AND BUILDING FORM 15 Climatic data of a place: sourcing, analysing and inferring. Mahoney tables, periodic chart, Overheated periods, other climatically significant periods, activity charts of building. Site specific climatic factors; identification, listing and analysis. Land form and orientation – its effects on radiation and daylight. Open space and built form – its effects on radiation and air flow. Ground character. Climatic design of outdoor spaces and adjacent outdoor spaces – its design considerations; lowering surface temperature and air temperatures of outdoor spaces. Orientation of building; evaluation of best orientation, optimum orientation climatically. Form and proportion of the overall building and site. Exercises on analysis of the above aspects at different climatic conditions. The geometrical form of building envelop and its climatic significance; varieties of form and its influence of heat gain and wind flow. Study of various roof forms and Study of various building form in plan, for various climatic conditions. Form and its relation to radiant and convective cooling. Optimum built form. Exercises on the application of the above understandings.
Unit II
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Unit III
CLIMATIC DESIGN OF BUILDING ELEMENTS – I 10 Wall opening varieties. Wall opening design considering wind, light and heat gain. Orientation, Size, Position; its climatic significance. Protection and Control of wall openings. Sunshade and Louver design; its varieties, its performance optimization considering wind, light and heat. Exercises on design and detailing of wall openings for different of climatic conditions.
Unit IV
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Course Outcomes:
- An understanding of procedures involved in climatic design of buildings
- An understanding on the significance of architectural form; climatically.
- Ability to design and generate multiple iterations for various building elements climatically.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Martin Evans, ‘Housing Climate and Comfort’, Architectural Press, London, 1980.
- B. Givoni, Man, ‘Climate and Architecture’, Architectural Sciences Series, Applied Science Publishers Ltd., London, 1981.
- B. Givoni, ‘Passive and Low Energy Cooling of building’, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York,1994.
- Galloe Salam and Sayigh A.M.M, ‘Architecture, Comfort and Energy’, Elsevier Science Ltd., Oxford,1998.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Bachelor of Architecture 6th Sem, visit B.Arch 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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