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Review of Works on Comparison of Old Indigenous Residences with Modern Houses in India on Non-Subjective Indices of Thermal Comfort
Authors
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Sanmarga Mitra
1. Department of Architecture and Planning, National Institute of Technology, Patna, Bihar 800005, India; 2. Department of Architecture, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh 462030, India
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Shailendra Kr. Mandal
Department of Architecture and Planning, National Institute of Technology, Patna, Bihar 800005, India
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.30564/jees.v7i3.7910Abstract
During the past few decades, we have witnessed the phenomenon of constant warming occurring everywhere on the globe. Cities have suffered from urban warming to a greater extent than any other part of the world, and Kolkata has one of the highest levels of urban warming of any city around the world. In Kolkata, 73% of the buildings are residential, and it is this type of building that contributes to a significant amount of this warming. With the city of Kolkata as the case study, this paper aims at understanding the multiple domains of urban heat islands and thermal comfort within the context of the city, from a macro perspective of an urban heat island down to a micro perspective of a building level, with the ultimate aim of mitigating global warming through this study. Various research works have been undertaken in India and abroad to understand the individual as well as composite effect of various building components on the indoor thermal comfort. Researches have also been undertaken to compare and comprehend the differential thermal comfort of old indigenous residences with that of the new residential buildings. Hence, this paper discusses methods that have been applied in past works to evaluate the thermal comfort of old and new residential buildings in a non-subjective manner, without having recourse to user feedback, in the final segment that views the process of learning from comparing old and new residential buildings.
Keywords:
Review of Works; Global Warming; Urban Heat Island; Thermal ComfortReferences
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