Monsoon Semester 2023 | Passive Comfort Laboratory

The Passive Comfort Laboratory prioritizes optimizing building envelopes for enhanced energy efficiency, delving into fundamental building physics principles such as heat transfer, climatology, solar geometry, natural ventilation, psychrometry, and mass transfer. With three modules, the first half simultaneously operates Concepts and Practices and Measurement and Experimentation. The latter part of the semester emphasizes the Building Simulation module, conducting energy simulations that scrutinize the impact of building features, orientation, and global location. Establishing baseline cases, the studio proposes comprehensive energy conservation measures and efficiency interventions, addressing the core of building envelope optimization for energy-efficient structures in a concise and integrated manner.