CONTROL OF INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS VIA THE REGULATION OF BUILDING ENVELOPES Cover Image

REGULACIJA NOTRANJEGA OKOLJA Z URAVNAVANJEM STAVBNEGA OVOJA
CONTROL OF INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS VIA THE REGULATION OF BUILDING ENVELOPES

Author(s): Mitja Košir
Subject(s): Architecture
Published by: Fakulteta za arhitekturo, Univerza v Ljubljani
Keywords: interior environment; Building envelope; regulation system; built environment; buildings

Summary/Abstract: The design of comfortable, healthy and stimulating indoor environments in buildings has a direct impact on the users and on energy consumption, as well as on the wider soci-economic environment of society.The indoor environment of buildings is defined with the formulation of the building envelope, which functions as an interface between the internal and external environments and its users. A properly designed, flexible and adequately controlled building envelope is a starting point in the formulation of a high-quality indoor environment. The systematic treatment of the indoor environment and building envelope from a user’s point of view represents an engineering approach that enables the holistic treatment of buildings, as well as integrated components and systems. The presented division of indoor environment in terms of visual, thermal, olfactory, acoustic and ergonomic sub-environments enables the classification and selection of crucial factors influencing design. This selection and classification can be implemented in the design, as well as in control applications of the building envelope. The implementation of the approach described is demonstrated with an example of an automated control system for the internal environment of an office in the building of the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 19-28
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Slovenian
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