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Revista de Arquitectura (Bogotá)
Print version ISSN 1657-0308On-line version ISSN 2357-626X
Abstract
MEDINA-PATRON, Natalia and ESCOBAR-SAIZ, Jonathan. Efficient building envelopes: Relationship between environmental conditions, comfortable spaces, and digital simulations. Rev. Arquit. [online]. 2019, vol.21, n.1, pp.90-109. Epub May 28, 2019. ISSN 1657-0308. https://doi.org/10.14718/revarq.2019.21.1.2140.
Social housing in Colombia presents a problem associated with the selection and use of materials that are consistent with climate change and the conditions of thermal and lighting comfort. This research evaluates different options to suggest a bet ter selection of building envelope materials; for this, an urban housing prototype located in the Bella Vista district of Soacha (Colombia) was used. The modeling used three groups of materials categorized as traditional, avant-garde, and innovative. 144 thermal and 18 lighting simulations were carried out, considering the climate and its variations during the next fifty-five years of useful life of the building, in order to compare and identify the combination of materials that achieve better thermal and lighting efficiency. As a result, the paper found that traditional and innovative materials have greater efficiency, although they require passive design actions since they are outside the comfort ranges. Avant-garde materials showed balanced values within the two categories.
Keywords : Adaptation to climate; bioclimatic architecture; thermal behavior; thermal and lighting comfort; construction materials; simulation model.