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Compare the conceptual passive strategies chosen by bioclimatic analysis with the results of more detailed analysis methods. Discuss absolute and relative differences between monthly conditions and climate zones. While these are shown as different categories on the CND project list, I see them as part and parcel of the same design problem. In part this is true because any passive strategies – heating or cooling, require that the strategy be bioclimatically appropriate beyond the conceptual level.
This exercise starts with the re-evaluation of the psychrometric and bioclimatic charts. Climate will dictate what is appropriate and achievable. In the case of the Solar Decathlon project, mass is eliminated as a passive strategy because of the travel component of the competition. It is therefore necessary to look at the passive cooling and heating gas a stepped process that progresses from conceptual conditions of annual and monthly average climatic conditions to a finer grain of detail that is evaluated using monthly and hourly climatic data. |
