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Control of Thermal Environment

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The course aims at educating students the fundamentals of thermal environment in relation to external environmental factors and human thermal comfort requirements. The course targets at developing students awareness of thermal comfort factors, indices and impacts of climatic factors on thermal environment in a manner that helps founding the architects’ responsibility towards the built environments they create. It enhances such foundation and responsibility based on understanding how to create responsive environments that responds to its surrounding environment to provide thermal comfort passively, yet saves energy in a sustainable manner. The impacts of building site, orientation, form, envelope and spaces’ zoning are all studied to be considered in an environment- friendly approach, based on diagnosing ambient thermal stress and suggesting proper passive strategies accordingly.
  • Course Goals
  • Good Health and Well-being
  • Affordable and Clean Energy
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • Responsible Consumption and Production
  • Climate Action

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    Indoor thermal environment, building envelope materials and assemblies, principles of sustainability, environmental design, human thermal comfort, solar heating, passive cooling, daylighting, visual comfort.
  • Arabic Description

    Indoor thermal environment, building envelope materials and assemblies, principles of sustainability, environmental design, human thermal comfort, solar heating, passive cooling, daylighting, visual comfort.
  • Department
    Architecture Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    2
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Major Assessment (35 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 25% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 15% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 0, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    75
  • Equivalent ECTS
    3
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  • - Lechner, Norbert, Heating, Cooling and Lighting: Sustainable Design Methods for Architects, John Willey & Sons, USA, 2015.
  • - Fat'hy, Hassan (Edited by Shearer, Walter and Sultan, Abdel Rahman Ahmed), Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture Principles, Examples with Reference to Hot Arid Climates, Cairo, 1986.
  • - Givoni, Baruch, Climate Considerations in Building and Urban Design, Van Nostrand Reinhold, USA, 1998.
  • - شفق العوضي الوكيل، محمد عبد الله سراج، المناخ وعمارة المناطق الحارة، عالم الكتب، القاهرة، 2016
  • - ألان كونيا (ترجمة وتعليق أحمد الخطيب) ، أسس التصميم بالمناطق الحارة، القاهرة، 2011 - Brown, G. Z., Dekay, Mark, Sun, Wind &Light: Architectural Design Strategies. John Wiley & Sons Inc., USA, 2001.