Solar energy in the passive acclimatization of the constructed environment

Abstract

The indoor environment should serve the mankind, providing comfort and healthy conditions of life. In that sense, the human intervention in order to live along with the weather conditions is expressed by building indoor and outdoor spaces. The energy rationalization is related to the adaptation of the architecture to the weather, in order to avoid or decrease the use of artificial conditioning systems for heating or cooling. So, lower energy consumption for acclimatizing has to converge to improve the energy efficiency. In this study, it is showed one of the passive acclimatization techniques and its comparison to other artificial methods with the same aim.