Multicriteria Design: Optimizing Thermal, Acoustic, and Visual Comfort and Indoor Air Quality in Classrooms

Multi-criteria design; IEQ; Indoor environmental quality; school building; adaptative comfort; interactions; indoor air quality; acoustic comfort; visual comfort

Abstract :

[en] Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) is a crucial for ensuring comfortable and healthy indoor spaces, and it is influenced by four primary factors: thermal comfort, acoustic comfort, visual comfort, and air quality. These aspects have a combined influence on the overall perception of comfort, and therefore, need to be assessed with a holistic approach. This chapter presents design strategies that would generate the indoor environmental conditions needed to ensure IEQ in school classrooms in the Global South. First, the design strategies are identified and classified for each aspect of IEQ based on a literature review. Then they are organized, and conflicting design strategies are identified. Finally, a design workflow for the incorporation of passive design strategies in school classrooms is presented.

Disciplines :

Architecture

Author, co-author :

Diaz Cisternas, Muriel Andrea ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Urban and Environmental Engineering

Gonzalez-Caceres, Alex

Attia, Shady ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Techniques de construction des bâtiments

Language :

English

Title :

Multicriteria Design: Optimizing Thermal, Acoustic, and Visual Comfort and Indoor Air Quality in Classrooms

Publication date :

12 May 2023

Main work title :

Removing Barriers to Environmental Comfort in the Global South

Publisher :

Springer International Publishing

ISBN/EAN :

978-3-03-124208-3
978-3-03-124207-6

Pages :

435–449

Peer reviewed :

Editorial reviewed

Development Goals :

11. Sustainable cities and communities

Additional URL :

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-24208-3_30

Available on ORBi :

since 17 May 2023

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