Comfort and Perception in Architecture

✍ Scribed by J. Alstan Jakubiec

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 119
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book discusses the design of comfortable buildings and shows that design perception and, as a result, comfort should be an intentional feature of architectural design. Modern buildings are often sealed boxes without operable windows or daylighting design. However, contemporary designers increasingly find themselves faced with the task of creating spaces that are comfortable in terms of thermal and visual aspects.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
References
Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 An Example-Based Case for Comfortable Buildings
1.1.1 Visual and Thermal Discomfort in a Cambridge, MA Higher Education Building
1.1.2 Disability Glare at an Air Traffic Control Tower
1.1.3 Visual Discomfort in Singaporean Office Buildings
1.2 Exploring Comfort in Architectural Design
1.3 Writing Conventions
2 History of Thermal Comfort Standards
2.1 Early Heating and Air Conditioning for Comfort
2.2 Explicit Comfort Metrics and the Effective Temperature Era
2.3 Narrowing Definitions of Comfort and ASHRAE Standard 55
2.4 Predicted Mean Vote
2.5 Physiological Basis for Thermal Neutrality (Comfort) Research
2.6 Refining Understanding and Nuances of Thermal Comfort
2.7 Focus on Real-World Conditions and Behavioral Adaptation
2.8 Adaptive Thermal Comfort
2.9 Recent Comfort Standard Updates
2.10 Research Assessment of Contemporary Thermal Standards
References
3 History of Visual Comfort Standards
3.1 Early Definitions and Applications of Glare
3.2 IES Glare Index—A First Standard and Its Detractors
3.3 Glare from Large Sources and New Methodological Concerns
3.4 IESNA Visual Comfort Probability
3.5 CIE Glare Index
3.6 Unified Glare Rating
3.7 Predicted Glare Sensation Vote
3.8 Approaching Contemporary Discomfort Glare—Daylight Glare Probability
3.9 Until the Present—Changes and Challenges to DGP
3.9.1 Influence of View
3.9.2 Influence of Light Level Ranges
3.9.3 Influence of Personal Factors
3.9.4 Influence of Time of Day
3.9.5 Changes to DGP Calculations and Evaluation
References
4 Performance-Driven Design Workflows
4.1 Spatial Visualizations: Daylight, Ventilation, and Adaptive Thermal Comfort
4.1.1 Metrics
4.1.2 Recife Housing
4.1.3 Prosser House
4.1.4 Buderim House
4.1.5 Cubic House
4.1.6 Altolar
4.1.7 Social Housing
4.1.8 DCM Apartments
4.2 Annual Performance Analysis: Visual and Thermal Discomfort
4.3 Further Dynamics: Shades, HVAC
References
5 Comfort in Design and Design Education
5.1 Current Workflows, Tools, Standards
5.2 Challenges for Practice
5.3 A Practical Step for Practice and Education: Post-occupancy Evaluation
5.4 Future Thoughts
References