Climate Based Design Decision Support for Urban Village Development: A case study in Nuba, Egypt | ||||
| The International Conference on Civil and Architecture Engineering | ||||
| Article 14, Volume 9, 9th International Conference on Civil and Architecture Engineering, May 2012, Page 1-15 PDF (1.13 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/iccae.2012.44241 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Hany Mokhtar; Mohammad Fahmy; Amr Gira | ||||
| Department of Architecture, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Abstract Upper Egypt region is characterised with harsh hot arid climate conditions which means that even mechanical cooling cannot be applied on a wide scale of urban housing projects. Therefore, urban passive desig n principles should be considered in present climate conditions to conclude an acceptable indoor human thermal comfort conditions and crucially for future conditions. As part of NUBA urban villages’ development project, NUBA, sponsored by the Egyptian Gov ernment, this paper investigates the mean outdoor thermal comfort of two urban housing alternatives. The case study is a new development to the west of Aswan International Airport and consists of eight urban villages each of which is composed of a group of clusters accommodating about 2000 people. First alternative has been almost approved for construction on a rush of time for as a fast replacement for Nuba people old houses due to the new urban planning of Aswan; it has been designed without full consider ation for passive techniques nor for the Egyptian Energy Code in Residential Buildings. That is why the second alternative tries to support redesign of the rest villages. Numerical simulations took place to generate outdoor meteorology for present day and the year 2050. Results of whole village outdoor spaces showed that second alternative is far better than the first both in present day and in future, proofed that there is no choice but to design passively in such hot arid region and proofed the passive d esign methodology used. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| passive design; Climate Change; air temperature | ||||
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