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Seiji Abe
Bio: Seiji Abe is an academic researcher from Hiroshima University. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications receiving 33 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the thermal functions of internal courtyards in traditional Chinese shophouses (CSHs) located in the hot-humid climate of Malaysia with the aim of providing useful passive cooling strategies for modern urban houses.
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04 Sep 2015
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the effectiveness of the software ENVI-met v4 on the prediction of the thermodynamic performance of courtyards by means of comparing between field data obtained from simultaneous monitoring of three Courtyards and the results obtained from the software simulations.
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TL;DR: A comprehensive critical examination of China's folk architectural forms is presented in this article, where the authors provide a study of the environmental, historical and social factors that influence housing forms for nearly a quarter of the world's population.
Abstract: A comprehensive critical examination of China's folk architectural forms. Together with its companion volume, \"China's Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation\", it provides a study of the environmental, historical and social factors that influence housing forms for nearly a quarter of the world's population. Both books draw on the author's 30 years of fieldwork and travel in China, as well as on published and unpublished material in many languages. The work begins by tracing the interest in Chinese vernacular buildings in the 20th century. Early chapters detail common and distinctive spatial components, including the interior and exterior modular spaces that are axiomatic components of most Chinese dwellings as well as conventional structural components and building materials that are common in Chinese construction. Later chapters examine representative housing types in the three broad cultural realms - northern, southern and western - into which China has been divided. Knapp completes his survey with an exploration of China's old dwellings in the context of the rapid economic and social changes that are destroying so many of them.
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TL;DR: In static wind conditions, infection possibility in courtyard was comparable to those in indoor environments during the COVID-19 period, and this work will be of great importance for sustainable development of courtyards from the perspectives of airborne diseases control.
47 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impacts of facade openings, particularly balcony geometry, on natural ventilation performance and occupants' perception and found that most of the available literature is carried out in case studies and regions with warm or hot climates that are cooling dominant.
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TL;DR: In this article, a GIS-based exploration of the relationship between aspect ratio of inner courtyards, porosity of the urban fabric and the climatic factors where it is located is presented.
Abstract: This study identifies and proposes A GIS-based exploration of the relationships between aspect ratio of inner courtyards, porosity of the urban fabric and the climatic factors where it is located. To perform that comparison, morphological and measurement methods have been used to delineate spatial boundaries of urban densification. This methodology has been applied to a case study in Spain, where regulation establishes several climatic zones. Examples of cities in these zones have been examined to establish possible correlations. This paper analyses the particularities of these different urban scenarios, considering the effects of climate on the real urban densification. The purpose of this study is to find a relationship between the historical inner courtyards dimensions and the climate of the zone where they are located. In order to frame the real thermal behaviour of the inner courtyard in the context of the vernacular typologies studied, a representative sample of inner courtyards has been selected. The monitoring data presented allow quantifying the courtyard’s ability to temper the maximum temperature values.
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