Monday, February 14, 2011

Hygroscopic Climatic Envelope in Ancient Southern China:Adobe Buildings (Tu-Lou)




Chinese traditional residential building is a unique wealth in the course of human construction development. Research on the ecological experiences of Chinese traditional residential building can give a good deal of enlightment on the modem sustainable architecture practice. The adobe building in China is a unique residential building in the world.

The experimental results show quatitively the dynamic behavior of indoor environment of adobe buildings. Computer simulations using the written-by-author program have been executed with boundary conditions corresponding to the natural climate. Comparisons with experimental results and numerical solutions show good agreement with the proposed models. The simulation results also show clearly the dynamic thermal and moisture adjusting effect by interior materials of adobe buildings.

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