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Architectural design of passive solar residential building
Author(s) -
Jing Ma,
Jian Liu,
Yin Liu,
Wen-Lei Wan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
thermal science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 2334-7163
pISSN - 0354-9836
DOI - 10.2298/tsci1504415m
Subject(s) - passive solar building design , architectural engineering , microclimate , passive cooling , low energy house , environmental science , architectural design , thermal , civil engineering , meteorology , engineering , architecture , geography , archaeology
This paper studies thermal environment of closed balconies that commonly exist in residential buildings, and designs a passive solar residential building. The design optimizes the architectural details of the house and passive utilization of solar energy to provide auxiliary heating for house in winter and cooling in summer. This design might provide a more sufficient and reasonable modification for microclimate in the house

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