Climate and Built Environment detailed syllabus for Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University 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 3rd sem scheme and its subjects, do visit B.Arch 3rd sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of climate and built environment is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
CLIMATE, HUMAN COMFORT AND HEAT 9 Climate and Civilisation. Components and characteristics of climate. Classification of climate for building designers in tropics. Human body heat balance and heat loss. Effects of climatic factors on human body heat loss. Effective temperature, human thermal comfort. Use of C. Mahoneys tables.
Unit II
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Unit III
HEAT FLOW THROUGH BUILDING ENVELOPE- CONCEPTS 7 The transfer of heat through solids. Definitions- Conductivity, Resistivity, Specific heat, Conductance, Resistance and Thermal capacity. Surface resistance and air cavities. Air to air transmittance (U value). Time lag and decrement. Material qualities of envelopes. Exercise involving heat flow through building envelope involving calculations. Demonstration of software for design analysis.
Unit IV
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Unit V
ENVIRONMENT AND DESIGN OF BUILDINGS 7 Design strategies in warm humid climates, hot humid climates, hot and dry climates and cold climates. Understanding through case studies and site visits.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- O.H. Koenigsberger and Others, ‘Manual of Tropical Housing and Building- Climatic Design’, Orient Longman, Madras, India, 2010.
- Bureau of Indian Standards IS 3792, ‘Hand book on Functional Requirements of Buildings other than Industrial Buildings- Part I – IV’, New Delhi,1987.
- Benjamin H. Evans, Day lighting in Architecture, Mcgraw Hill, 1981.
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, NewYork,1994.
- Galloe Salam and Sayigh A.M.M, ‘Architecture, Comfort and Energy’, Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford,1998.
- Arvind Krishnan, Szokolay et.al, ‘Climate Responsive Architecture- A Design Handbook for Energy Efficient Buildings’, Tata McGraw Hill, 2017.
For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Bachelor of Architecture, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit B.Arch 3rd sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Bachelor of Architecture results, visit Anna University B.Arch all semester results direct link.