Thermally comfortanle housing in Iraq - Prospects of the courtyard pattern in achieving energy efficiency

Al-Hafith, Omar, Basavapatna Kumaraswamy, Satish, Bradbury, Simon and De Wilde, Pieter 2018. Thermally comfortanle housing in Iraq - Prospects of the courtyard pattern in achieving energy efficiency. Presented at: 3rd International Sustainable Buildings Symposium (ISBS 2017), Dubai, 15-17 March 2017. Proceedings of 3rd International Sustainable Buildings Symposium (ISBS 2017). , vol.1 Springer, Cham, pp. 904-917. 10.1007/978-3-319-63709-9_69

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Abstract

Housing represents one of the most important needs for people. In Iraq, there are large housing problems. It is estimated that there is a shortage of around one million dwellings, which is equal to one-fourth of the total housing stock in the country. As a part of the solutions to this problem, the country needs architectural designs that satisfy three main conditions: enable an increase of the housing production, be affordable and satisfy people’s residential requirements. The latter includes, for instance, providing suitable layouts, comfortable environment and the required level of privacy. Within this spectrum, this paper focuses on satisfying the need of providing a thermally comfortable indoor environment. The importance of this aspect rises from the high temperatures in Iraq during the long summer season, the unreliable electricity supply with frequent supply interruption, reducing the running costs and the need to maintain the environment at comfort conditions. The paper explores the courtyard pattern as an approach to achieve a thermally comfortable indoor environment, and studies how courtyards may be adopted within multistory residential buildings in order to reduce the costs and support the housing production. With an aim to define a proven thermally efficient design solution, this paper aims to investigate the courtyard thermal efficiency and to adopt it in generating potential efficient design solutions. It reports on an extensive literature review that investigates published scientific studies within the last ten years about the thermal efficiency of the courtyard pattern and its design features. The investigation includes exploring studies that have conducted experiments to define the thermal performance of the courtyard pattern. To propose design solutions, the paper considered the investigation’s results and the main residential buildings criteria and standards. The research results define the thermal efficiency of the courtyard patterns and demonstrate the importance of adopting the courtyard pattern’s design features to provide a thermally comfortable indoor environment. The paper proposes two architectural solutions for Iraq that include adopting the courtyard pattern in multistory residential buildings.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Architecture
Publisher:	Springer, Cham
ISBN:	978-3-319-63708-2
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	26 February 2023
Date of Acceptance:	February 2017
Last Modified:	08 Jun 2023 11:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/157336

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