Optimizing the Performance of the Final Coating in Terms of Thermal Exchange for Post-Disaster Temporary Shelter in Cold Climates; Case Study: Kermanshah City

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D. Candidate of Architecture, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.

2 Associate Professor of Architecture, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding Author).

3 Associate Professor, International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Tehran, Iran.

10.22034/aaud.2022.290383.2489

Abstract

Natural disasters yearly cause millions of people to become homeless. After the occurrence of any accident destroying people's living environment, it is necessary to provide suitable shelter as soon as possible. The solutions for providing shelter in the first days reveal that shelters don't provide thermal comfort and have inappropriate thermal performance, causing victims to either make changes in the shelter or leave them. The present study attempts to provide suitable relative temperature conditions for accident victims by proposing suitable coatings for the shelter. The present study is applied research in which the Design Builder software is applied for simulating and testing internal temperature conditions to reach the research goal, i.e. to propose an optimal climate shelter for cold climates. The results indicate that the coating made of fiberglass and cardboard on the dome form provides higher thermal comfort. Also, it is inevitably necessary to apply non-vernacular materials to use vernacular materials and maintain the thermal comfort conditions inside the shelter.

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