Proceedings of the 25th International Academic Conference, OECD Headquarters, Paris

AN ASSESSMENT OF THERMAL COMFORT PREFERENCE IN OPEN LAY OUT BUILDING IN WARM-HUMID ACEH, INDONESIA

ZULFIAN ZULFIAN, HARIS FAHREZA,

Abstract:

This study aims at assessing the acceptable thermal comfort for the local people in the warm-humid Aceh. The measurement was conducted based on ISO 7730 which is compared with adaptive thermal comfort method. In this research Aceh Tsunami Museum building, located in Banda Aceh Indonesia was assessed as a case study. The museum has an open lay out ground floor located in the city center of Banda Aceh. Being built in the crowded area such museum design has been utilised by the local people to have pleasant and fresh air; and shades. This study was conducted onsite using mechanical equipment and involving 138 respondents. The result shows that the comfort temperature calculated by mechanical equipment based on ISO 7730 is 23.14°C. This is in contrast with the result of the questionnaires that showed people in an open building design sense the air temperature up to 32°C as slightly cool. This condition is influenced by the mean air speed of 2.34 m/s and the mean relative humidity of 66.25% (RH). This finding agrees that obtaining the comfort air temperature especially in warm humid area merely from the prediction of comfort index in ISO 7730 is inaccurate since the respondents actually could adapt with the higher air temperature

Keywords: Thermal Comfort, Tsunami Museum Building, ISO 7730

DOI: 10.20472/IAC.2016.025.063

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