Project 1: Case Study - Assessing Daylight and Thermal Comfort
After being sorted into a group of 5, we were tasked to choose from either a semi-detached house, a corner lot double-storey terrace or any other suitable house to asses the issues of daylighting and thermal comfort within it. After choosing a bungalow to evaluate, we took record of two different spaces, each with its own issues. Lastly, we were to come up with solutions on how to fix and improve the current issues by incorporating passive design.
Project 2: Artificial Lighting Design Layout - Lumen Method
Remaining in the same group as project 1, our next task was to choose a non-residential space to perform the lumen method on to understand the basic artificial lighting design principles. This comes with the mission to find the suitable amount of required illuminance for the space chosen with the suggestions of solutions to improve the current lighting.
With this module comes the understanding of sustainability and effective passive design in my opinion. It has shown me yet another great responsibility of an architect, being the heavy and constant consideration of the human comfort in each and every space made.
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The two assignments presented to my batch and I is a great way to not only be educated about the topics, but to have us understand the real world implications of them, alongside building the necessary skills to take measurements into our own hands. Having both projects as group assignments also helped quite a lot on lessening the workload on each student, alongside teaching us how to properly function as a group with new people. My lecturer, Dr Siti, has been a great asset of help during the culmination of the outcomes, providing constant support and an abundance of assistance and feedback.