ABSTRACT

This research paper studies different patterns of traditional and modern residential buildings in Aljabal Algharbi region of Libya in order to evaluate their ability to ensure the thermal human comfort in their internal spaces. To reach the desired goals enumeration and analysis has been done for traditional and modern residential building types, consisting of earth-sheltered houses and stone and gypsum plaster homes as traditional types and private separated homes and public residential buildings as modern ones.
Four modules of residential buildings have been chosen for practical study; two of them are traditional and the other two are modern. Inside and outside temperature and relative humidity measurements during the coldest winter days and the hottest summer days have been taken and applied on the Psychometric chart to evaluate their ability to evaluate thermal human comfort. The study shows that the summer climatic conditions are comfort and consideration should be given to the winter climatic conditions, because most of the residential types did not meet the thermal comfort requirements in winter except the earth-sheltered houses. The study ends with conclusions and recommendations that could provide the requirements support for planning and design housing projects in the future in Aljabal Algharbi region.

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