Multicriteria Design: Optimizing Thermal, Acoustic, and Visual Comfort and Indoor Air Quality in Classrooms
Book chapter, 2023

Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) is a crucial for ensuring comfortable and healthy indoor spaces, and it is influenced by four primary factors: thermal comfort, acoustic comfort, visual comfort, and air quality. These aspects have a combined influence on the overall perception of comfort, and therefore, need to be assessed with a holistic approach. This chapter presents design strategies that would generate the indoor environmental conditions needed to ensure IEQ in school classrooms in the Global South. First, the design strategies are identified and classified for each aspect of IEQ based on a literature review. Then they are organized, and conflicting design strategies are identified. Finally, a design workflow for the incorporation of passive design strategies in school classrooms is presented.

Indoor air quality

Acoustic comfort

Adaptive comfort

Indoor environmental quality

School classroom

Visual comfort

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Author

Muriel Diaz

University of Liège

Universidad del Bio-Bio

Alex Arnoldo Gonzalez Caceres

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology

Shady Attia

University of Liège

Green Energy and Technology

1865-3529 (ISSN) 1865-3537 (eISSN)

435-449

Subject Categories

Architectural Engineering

Environmental Analysis and Construction Information Technology

Building Technologies

DOI

10.1007/978-3-031-24208-3_30

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Latest update

6/14/2023