In a group of 6, students were required to incorporate basic passive building design strategies in an existing building, under the guidance of a tutor. Students were then tasked to choose a building, analyze its properties, calculate building heat gain, apply basic passive design strategies and present them in two A3 sized presentation boards.

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The building we chose is a 3-storey terraced house located in a neighborhood in Cheras. The space we chose to put our focus on is a bedroom for one person. 

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Objective (taken from brief): 

 •Choose a building that would best showcase the basic building design for thermal comfort. Record and analyse the existing condition in terms of thermal comfort.  

• Explain how the thermal environment of your case study is affected from natural and man-made factors. • Have a thorough research on the basic design strategies (2), the principles and details needed for these basic design strategies to perform best in tropical climate and to achieve thermal comfort in this building/space.

• Identify two (2) basic design strategies (sun shading & passive ventilation) that have been designed for this building. And photograph the interior ambiances and outline the thermal comfort.

• Explicitly detail visuals and narrate strategies that accompany these basic building designs.  

• Research should contain the following: a. Building Introduction (images, pictures, diagrams, drawings and description) b. Site analysis; micro (wind, sun, topography, etc.) c. Thermal Analysis 

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Shown below are the 2 A3 sized presentation boards