Abstract: There are various architectural features of a residential buildings and commercial buildings that can influence its indoor or interior climate and electricity consumption, which due to lack good orientation and shadings elements also includes such as thermal insulation, the size of the window, glazing material, and albedo of building façade. In addition to these architectural features, shading effects (either by external objects or by the building itself) can also affect the thermal performance of a building on base on how it was working. External shading effects are mainly caused by nearby trees or buildings, which is depending on how closed the trees are with the building. Also while shading effect imposed by the building itself usually base on the layout design of the building, i.e. building shape and layout arrangement of the flats on each floor. Some flats in a building may receive a shading effect from adjacent flats located in the same building block which is normally common here in Cyprus because there roofing system normally used flat roofs which are more common. So for architects before designing a building you have to conduct the layout design of a building, a number of factors such as building regulations, (because each region has normally had its own buildings regulations like Famagusta regulation might not be the same with Nicosia) site limitations, scenic view, noise control, natural ventilation and daylight utilization will be considered. The thermal performance of a building is one of the major issues that should be taken into consideration. The objective of this study is to assess the thermal performance of buildings under the effect of adjacent shading in hot climate region. A simulation using Autodesk Revit insight and ecotect Software was carried out to identify typical layout designs of the buildings. Building energy simulations were conducted for the building blocks with different layout designs. It is found that adjacent shading effect has a great impact on the thermal performance of buildings which include both commercial buildings and residential but normally effect more on residential due to hours that we live inside. So all this thing that I had mentioned we are going to see them in this article.
Keywords: Shading effect, Building Energy simulation, Dormitory Building, Hot Climate Famagusta Cyprus.
Title: Effect of shading on thermal performance of Dormitory Building on Hot Climate
Author: Faisal Saleh Minangi, Halil Zafer Alibaba
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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