Building Science 1
Subject Objectives:
1. Identify environmental conditions related to site conditions, climate, etc.
2. Explain the effects of the sun on the thermal performance of buildings, including the effect of insulation,
thermal mass and air movement on thermal performance of buildings.
3. Infer how different building material (K-value, U- value, R-value) has different effect on heat gain or thermal
environment in a given space
4. Estimate heat gain in a space and to provide passive solution s for it.
5. Evaluate control of variables such as heat and ventilation
6. Identify the limits of human acceptable or desirable conditions (thermal environment) and recommend
designs that control the effects of sun on the thermal performance of buildings (shading devices)
Project 1: Analysing Passive Design Strategies
The objectives of this project are: • To identify and define the principles of heat transfer in relation to building and people • To understand what is thermal comfort and discuss factors relating to thermal comfort • To analyze the effect of thermal comfort factors in a person and in a space • To be able to criticize design of the space in terms of thermal comfort by referring to MS1525, UBBL, GBI and Green Mark Standards.
1. Identify environmental conditions related to site conditions, climate, etc.
2. Explain the effects of the sun on the thermal performance of buildings
3. Explain the effect of insulation, thermal mass and air movement on thermal performance of
buildings.
4. Infer how different building material (K-value, u-value, r-value) has different effect on heat gain or
thermal environment in a given space
Learning Outcomes
In this project, we took a look at Ken Yeang's IBM Plaza in TTDI, or what is known as Vad's Plaza now. We took a look into its passive designs, focusing on shading devices and cross-ventilation strategies of the building. Not only looking at the building itself was sufficient, but looking at theclimate, orientation of building, height of building and direction of windspeed, etc needed to be taken into acount to successfully study the building. Using various strategies, we found that the building holds a good shading device as well as the orientation of wind movement into the building. It was found that using different methods of analysis, it was apparent that the building was well designed for the malaysian climate as it gives and breathes the building. The temperature in the building is reduced through this use of ventilated openings and flow throughout the building.