The Influence of Immediate Urban Surroundings on Energy Performance of Historical Buildings

7 pages•Published: September 25, 2020

Onur Dursun, Feyza Durmuslar and Duhan Olmez

Abstract

High-density urban areas contain large number of historical buildings whose structures and artistic values are protected by regulations. This restricts the improvements can be made to building envelope to reduce energy demand of historical buildings. Therefore, immediate urban surroundings (IUS) may play a central role on energy performance of historical buildings (EPHB). Yet, literature has provided little or no evidence, so far. To address the gap, the current experimental inquiry aims to test the significance of IUS’s influence on the EPHB. To achieve, historical structure in hot- humid climate was selected and surveyed thoroughly. Control and intervention cases were considered to measure the influence IUS. The control case corresponds to the former state of IUS; whereas the intervention described as the IUS which includes a recently built office block with reflective glass façade. The numerical result obtained from computational thermal simulations were used for comparison. Accordingly, the increase in heating demand substantially surpassed the decrease in cooling demand for the case under study. Therefore, a significant increase in total energy demand was observed in the presence of intervention. In addition, the energy performance of the individual volumes located in the lower floors presented higher fluctuations due to intervention’s shading effect.

Keyphrases: energy performance, experimental design, historical buildings, urban surroundings

In: Tom Leathem (editor). Associated Schools of Construction Proceedings of the 56th Annual International Conference, vol 1, pages 250-256.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/xKw2
	https://doi.org/10.29007/ghfx

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{ASC2020:Influence_Immediate_Urban_Surroundings,
  author    = {Onur Dursun and Feyza Durmuslar and Duhan Olmez},
  title     = {The Influence of Immediate Urban Surroundings on Energy Performance of Historical Buildings},
  booktitle = {Associated Schools of Construction Proceedings of the 56th Annual International Conference},
  editor    = {Tom Leathem},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Built Environment},
  volume    = {1},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2632-881X},
  url       = {/publications/paper/xKw2},
  doi       = {10.29007/ghfx},
  pages     = {250-256},
  year      = {2020}}

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