Passive Building Design for Human Thermal Comfort Case Study Semi Arid Climate of India with Focus on Delhi

By Seyed Morteza Moossavi

Energy efficiency in buildings is one of the most important aims for the world and India this age. Delhi as the capital of India with a high population has a plan to be as a green capital. Delhi government have decided to adapt the green buildings technology across all its major construction agencies through a circular issued in 2003. This book is extracted from the phd research and is focused on passive building design in according to social and economic context of Delhi for human thermal comfort in residential buildings. The specific objectives of the research were obtaining a standard for human thermal comfort in Delhi and diagnosis optional passive architectural design criteria and techniques in residential buildings of Delhi. Residential buildings are very important because of its highest percentage of energy consumption. In the part of literature review three layers of references was studied: International standards about thermal comfort, Heating and cooling researches in similar climates in the world, Researches in passive building design with focus on composite climate of India or especially Delhi. Methods chapter of the research focuses on climatic data and conditions through ISHRAE, ASHRAE, IWO and IMD data. Methods and collected data were presented in four main layers: "1- Explaining climatic factors: solar radiation, ambient temperature, air humidity, precipitation, wind, sky condition. 2- Climatic data and graphical presentations: dry bulb temperature, extreme temperature, dew point temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, wet days, wind chill-heat index temperature, wind velocity, solar radiation, undisturbed ground temperature. 3- Basis discussion on human thermal comfort. 4- Human thermal comfort standard for Delhi. In analysis chapter, it was tried to make a proper basis data through combination and compared analyzes of climatic parameters by climatic analyzes softwares and calculators to achieve suitable design strategies and techniques for Delhi." Passive residential building design according to Delhi climate was discussed in two main classifications: Passive Building Design Principles, Passive Building Design Techniques.  Passive design principles can be explained in two classifications: Passive Site Planning Principles, Passive Building Design Principles. Passive design techniques can be explained in the following main classifications: Natural Ventilation, Evaporative Cooling, Radiant Barriers, Cool Roof, Ground Coupled Systems, Direct Solar Gain, Solar Wall, Double Facades, Green Façade, Clerestories and Skylights, Courtyard. Design for Maximum Ventilation needs to the following parameters: Install operable windows, Use landscaping elements to channel breezes, Properly locate and size windows for cross ventilation, Reduce internal barriers to ventilation (i.e. walls), Use wing walls if cross ventilation is not possible, Use stack ventilation to create a chimney effect. Also some effective architectural experiences same as wind tower and passive downdraught can be classify in ventilation systems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Seyed Morteza Moossavi
• Release date: Sep 3, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223975762

Seyed Morteza Moossavi

سید مرتضی موسوی متولد 27 اسفندماه 1351 در تهران، ایران هم اکنون مقیم ترکیه و ساکن استانبول دانش آموخته ی دکتری تخصصی معماری در دانشگاه ملی اسلامی، دهلی نو، هندوستان (Jamia Millia Islamia)، 1394 و کارشناسی ارشد مهندسی معماری در دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی کرمان، ایران، 1380. عضو هیأت علمی و مدیر گروه کارشناسی ارشد معماری موسسه ی آموزش عالی علامه جعفری، رفسنجان

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Dedicated to

My Dear Wife

Mahrokh

Acknowledgements

I would to thank to my PhD advisor, Professor Dr. S. M. Akhtar, for supporting me. Professor Akhtar is very capable dean faculty of architecture & ekistics at Jamia Millia Islamia. I think very fast development of the architecture department of Jamia Millia Islamia is result of his active administration. Actually Professor Akhtar has been supportive and has given me the freedom to pursue various projects without objection. He has also provided insightful discussions about the research.

I want to thank all authorities, officers and employees of Jamia Millia Islamia because of the good discipline and friendly environment, especially Mrs. Dr. Ameena Qazi Ansari (foreign students office advisor), Mr. Tanweer Samdani (secretary of architecture department) and Mr. Shamim (secretary of foreign student office).

I would like to thank University of California Los Angeles for very useful software, climate consultant. Also I thank American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, International Weather Organization, India Meteorological Department and The Energy Resources Institute of India for their useful publications and data. I would like to thank to University of Oregon, Solar Radiation Monitoring Laboratory, United States Department of Energy, AusDesign, Sustainable by Design, Volker Quaschning, Autodesk, Netsitemasters, SunEarthTools.com, Asheshwor Man Shreshta", for their useful energy and solar softwares that I have used in my research.

I also thank my father-in-low, Mr. Zahedi. He endured more than three years away from his only daughter, and I know that it was quite chore. Special thanks to my dear wife, Fatemeh. She was my adjuvant and helper in all of this hard period. She tried with her great love and sacrifice to create a comfortable environment for me and my daughter. It is not possible to thank her by words. Also special thanks to my daughter Mahnoush. She was far away from all her Iranian friends and relatives in last three years but she tried to adapt with new situation very well. Also I would like to thank to my parents for their lovely supporting. Although my mother was doing her chemotropic process in this period but they supported us with high spirit.

I thank my Indian friends, Mr. Sunil Ahuja and Mr. Raakesh Kumar Papneja, for providing support and friendship that I needed in this period especially.

And especially I thank people of India for their friendly hospitality. Actually among them, we (I and my family) did not feel that we are living away from home.

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About the author

Syed Morteza Mousavi

Born on March 27, 1351 in Tehran, Iran

A resident of Türkiye in Istanbul

Graduated with a PhD in architecture from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, 2014 and a master's degree in architectural engineering from Kerman Islamic Azad University, Iran, 2015.

Member of the faculty and dean of the master of architecture faculty at Allameh Jafari Institute of Higher Education, Rafsanjan,  Invited Lecturer and supervisor of theses at a number of other universities, including Kashan University, Yadegar Imam Islamic Azad University, Taft Islamic Azad University, Kerman Islamic Azad University, East Tehran Islamic Azad University, and Erfan Non-Governmental University in Kerman.

Architect and researcher, with more than twenty years of professional work experience in architectural design, construction and construction project management, research project management, tourism management, web design and management, and teaching in the fields of architectural engineering, telecommunication engineering, engineering textile, automobile industry, and automobile mechanics in Iranian universities and the author of numerous scientific books and articles in various fields and the presenter of numerous articles in international scientific conferences.

The published books of this researcher, before this book are:

-  Jyotish Shastra Vedic Cosmology and Astrology, 2023

-  Vastu Shastra Architecture in harmony with the laws of creation, 2023

-  Feng Shui, 2023

-  Iranian cosmology and astronomy, 2023

-  Yi Ching's analysis of the Book of Knowledge of Destinies and Transformations, 2022

-  Principles of Democracy, 2019

-  Specialized English for Persian-speaking architects, 2019

-  Vastu Shastra (Vedic Architecture), 2016

-  Nowruz Jamshidi, celebration of happiness and longevity, 2013

-  Shiva Sutras, 2013

-  Shiva Sutra, God's Aphorisms, Shiva, 2012

-  Babaji speaks, 2012

-  Architecture for everyone's happiness and well-being, 2011

-  The structure and history of the Qur'an, 2011

-  Noble Qur'an in order of revelation, 2011

-  Al-Qur'an al-Sharif in the sequence of divine descent, 2011

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