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The residential contextual façade techniques in improving indoor comfort for hot arid climate of Basra City: a review / Ziadoon Ahmed M. Alhambosh and Maszura Abdul Ghafar

Climate change is causing Iraq to experience extreme high temperature. This phenomenon has affected residents’ sense of comfort and incurred high energy consumption. The Residents’ thermal Comfort is still the main problem in hot and arid climate country such as Iraq particularly during summer resul...

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Main Authors: M. Alhambosh, Ziadoon Ahmed, Abdul Ghafar, Maszura
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perak 2022
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NA Architecture
Study and teaching. Research
Architecture, Domestic
Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/65702/1/65702.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.657022022-09-01T09:24:59Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/65702/ The residential contextual façade techniques in improving indoor comfort for hot arid climate of Basra City: a review / Ziadoon Ahmed M. Alhambosh and Maszura Abdul Ghafar M. Alhambosh, Ziadoon Ahmed Abdul Ghafar, Maszura NA Architecture Study and teaching. Research Architecture, Domestic Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying Climate change is causing Iraq to experience extreme high temperature. This phenomenon has affected residents’ sense of comfort and incurred high energy consumption. The Residents’ thermal Comfort is still the main problem in hot and arid climate country such as Iraq particularly during summer resulting in expensive energy usage. This paper seeks to investigate how Basra City residents could achieve indoor comfort using contextual façade techniques. This study analysed factors that can affect residents’ indoor comfort and identified a balance between indoor comfort and energy usage. The desktop result suggested that contextual double skin façade and double-glazing typologies could improve indoor thermal comfort for residents. Using this contextual façade typology could potentially lead to energy saving. This study is limited to understanding the effect of contextual double skin and double glazing to residents in hot and arid climate. This study aids in reducing climate change and sustainable residents’ fiscal in energy consumption. Future development of this contextual façade typology could provide future guidelines and policies for façade treatment in hot and arid countries. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perak 2022-08 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/65702/1/65702.pdf The residential contextual façade techniques in improving indoor comfort for hot arid climate of Basra City: a review / Ziadoon Ahmed M. Alhambosh and Maszura Abdul Ghafar. (2022) Malaysian Journal of Sustainable Environment (MySE), 9 (2). pp. 299-321. ISSN 0128-326X https://myjms.mohe.gov.my/index.php/myse/article/view/18840 doi.org/10.24191/myse.v9i2.18840 doi.org/10.24191/myse.v9i2.18840
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topic NA Architecture
Study and teaching. Research
Architecture, Domestic
Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying
spellingShingle NA Architecture
Study and teaching. Research
Architecture, Domestic
Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying
M. Alhambosh, Ziadoon Ahmed
Abdul Ghafar, Maszura
The residential contextual façade techniques in improving indoor comfort for hot arid climate of Basra City: a review / Ziadoon Ahmed M. Alhambosh and Maszura Abdul Ghafar
description Climate change is causing Iraq to experience extreme high temperature. This phenomenon has affected residents’ sense of comfort and incurred high energy consumption. The Residents’ thermal Comfort is still the main problem in hot and arid climate country such as Iraq particularly during summer resulting in expensive energy usage. This paper seeks to investigate how Basra City residents could achieve indoor comfort using contextual façade techniques. This study analysed factors that can affect residents’ indoor comfort and identified a balance between indoor comfort and energy usage. The desktop result suggested that contextual double skin façade and double-glazing typologies could improve indoor thermal comfort for residents. Using this contextual façade typology could potentially lead to energy saving. This study is limited to understanding the effect of contextual double skin and double glazing to residents in hot and arid climate. This study aids in reducing climate change and sustainable residents’ fiscal in energy consumption. Future development of this contextual façade typology could provide future guidelines and policies for façade treatment in hot and arid countries.
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author M. Alhambosh, Ziadoon Ahmed
Abdul Ghafar, Maszura
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author_sort M. Alhambosh, Ziadoon Ahmed
title The residential contextual façade techniques in improving indoor comfort for hot arid climate of Basra City: a review / Ziadoon Ahmed M. Alhambosh and Maszura Abdul Ghafar
title_short The residential contextual façade techniques in improving indoor comfort for hot arid climate of Basra City: a review / Ziadoon Ahmed M. Alhambosh and Maszura Abdul Ghafar
title_full The residential contextual façade techniques in improving indoor comfort for hot arid climate of Basra City: a review / Ziadoon Ahmed M. Alhambosh and Maszura Abdul Ghafar
title_fullStr The residential contextual façade techniques in improving indoor comfort for hot arid climate of Basra City: a review / Ziadoon Ahmed M. Alhambosh and Maszura Abdul Ghafar
title_full_unstemmed The residential contextual façade techniques in improving indoor comfort for hot arid climate of Basra City: a review / Ziadoon Ahmed M. Alhambosh and Maszura Abdul Ghafar
title_sort residential contextual façade techniques in improving indoor comfort for hot arid climate of basra city: a review / ziadoon ahmed m. alhambosh and maszura abdul ghafar
publisher Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perak
publishDate 2022
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/65702/1/65702.pdf
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