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Contrasting the Passive Cooling Effect Produced by Courtyards Located in the Tropical and Mediterranean Climates
Autor/es | Apolonio Callejas, Iván Julio
Galán-Marín, Carmen Durante, Luciane Cleonice Mendes do Amarante, Leticia Aparecida da Guarda, Emeli Lalesca Negreiros Morais, Maria Luíza Costa Diz Mellado, Eduardo María Rivera-Gómez, Carlos |
Coordinador/Director | Rodríguez Álvarez, Jorge
Gonçalves, Joana Carla Soares |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Construcciones Arquitectónicas I (ETSA) |
Fecha de publicación | 2020 |
Fecha de depósito | 2023-05-16 |
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ISBN/ISSN | 978-84-9749-794-7 |
Resumen | Courtyards are traditional architectural elements applied in many regions of the planet. In this research, the passive cooling potential provided by two courtyards with similar shapes, located in different climates types ... Courtyards are traditional architectural elements applied in many regions of the planet. In this research, the passive cooling potential provided by two courtyards with similar shapes, located in different climates types (Tropical and Mediterranean) were investigated. We focus to identify physical and climatic factors that influence the courtyard passive cooling system under similar weather conditions (in hot-dry period) but in different geographic positions. Shading and Insolation were quantified by computational analysis and thermal indexes determined by monitoring campaigns, focusing to contrast the courtyards performance. Due to differences in the latitude and longitude (solar trajectory), orientation, form and period of analyses, the courtyard located in the tropical region had its internal envelop more shaded and with less insolation than that in the Mediterranean. In turn, as nocturnal radioactive cooling is less pronounced in the tropical region, the outdoor and courtyard diurnal thermal range (DTR) presented lower thermal amplitudes than those in the Mediterranean. As consequence, the average daily difference between outdoors and indoors temperature ('T) was lower in the tropical region (1.2qC) than in the Mediterranean (2.5qC). This research confirms the courtyard architectural utility as a passive cooling system for tropical climate, with less cooling effects than those deployed on Mediterranean climat |
Cita | Apolonio Callejas, I.J., Galán-Marín, C., Durante, L.C., Mendes do Amarante, L., Aparecida da Guarda, E.L., Negreiros Morais, M.L.C.,...,Rivera Gómez, C.A. (2020). Contrasting the Passive Cooling Effect Produced by Courtyards Located in the Tropical and Mediterranean Climates. En 35th PLEA Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture (1686-1691), La Coruña: Universidad de La Coruña. |
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