The Unbearable Lightness of "The Paradigm" on energy waste and discomfort in a hot arid climate

Isaac A. Meir; Jennifer Y. Golding

The Unbearable Lightness of "The Paradigm" on energy waste and discomfort in a hot arid climate

Isaac A. Meir, Jennifer Y. Golding

The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research

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Abstract

This paper presents a number of case studies (surveyed and/or monitored) from a hot arid environment, covering a range of building types and sizes, among them government, university residential buildings, educational and tourist facilities. It hopefully demonstrates how preconceived ideas have prevented the designers of most of these to reach a healthy, responsive, comfortable indoor environment, whereas a basic understanding of the local conditions and the adaptive thermal model could have yielded much better results-easily achieved when appropriate design is coupled with informed users.

Original language	English
State	Published - 1 Dec 2010
Event	Conference on Adapting to Change: New Thinking on Comfort, WINDSOR 2010 - Windsor, United Kingdom Duration: 9 Apr 2010 → 11 Apr 2010

Conference

Conference	Conference on Adapting to Change: New Thinking on Comfort, WINDSOR 2010
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Windsor
Period	9/04/10 → 11/04/10

Keywords

Energy conservation
IAQ
IEQ
POE
Sustainable desert architecture

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Civil and Structural Engineering
Building and Construction

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