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A Critical review on high rise buildings in the context of bio climatic design a case of vertical diversity in tropical Colombo

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dc.contributor.author Amaratunga, AAND
dc.contributor.author Rajapaksha, RMKU
dc.date.accessioned 2018-01-26T23:58:13Z
dc.date.available 2018-01-26T23:58:13Z
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.mrt.ac.lk/handle/123/13048
dc.description.abstract Building envelop plays a vital role in creating comfortable indoor environments by cutting off unfavorable outdoor climatic conditions. The outdoor microclimate around a building varies creating diversified vertical climatic conditions. Yet less attention is given to the vertical climatic diversity in designing facades of tall buildings. The study critically discusses the facade design of tall buildings considering its vertical response and co-relationship to outside climatic diversity. Through a typical empirical study on randomly selected HRB in the existing context of Colombo, the Mahaweli Authority building was selected to investigate the co relationship of building design and the vertical character of its external climate. The final conclusion points out, that the designing process of HRB should pay more attention to bio climatic approach and design interventions with a better understanding on the external climatic character and its vertical diversity, rather than following typical two dimensional planning methods. This will result better and practical design outcome which will increase users satisfaction and improvements in energy saving. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject High-rise buildings, Bioclimatic approach, Vertical Diversity, Tropical climate en_US
dc.title A Critical review on high rise buildings in the context of bio climatic design a case of vertical diversity in tropical Colombo en_US
dc.type Conference-Abstract en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.year 2016 en_US
dc.identifier.conference 9th International Conference of Faculty of Architecture Research Unit (FARU) - 2016 en_US
dc.identifier.place Colombo en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 425 - 441 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Building the Future – sustainable and resilient environments en_US
dc.identifier.email Nimaniamarathunga@gmail.com en_US
dc.identifier.email Rajapaksha_upendra@yahoo.com en_US


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