Evaluación y estrategias térmicas para obtener un confort higrotérmico aplicado a una casa de habitación en la parroquia de Malacatos cantón Loja

Abstract

Abstract: Habitability must be considered in the design of a house, since people spend most of their time in it. Factors like temperature, humidity, and ventilation, break thermohygrometric conditions, and overexposure to heat or cold might affect people's physical and mental performance. There are methodologies to evaluate thermal comfort, second by authors such as Victor Olgyay, Baruch Givoni and Fanger. Fanger s methodology allows evaluating different variables such as activity level, dry bulb temperature, level of thermal insulation of clothing, relative humidity and speed. A qualitative and quantitative investigation was carried out using the Fanger model to evaluate thermal comfort in houses with a subtropical climate and some design strategies were proposed to fulfill the optimal parameters of thermal comfort. After the evaluation, a simulation is carried out using the Ecodesigne of the Archicad 25 Program, in which design strategies were proposed, allowing the accomplishment of the optimal parameters of thermal comfort within houses in a subtropical climate.