WHAT IS BIOCLIMATIC ARCHITETURE?

• Bioclimatic design of a building is the design which govern the climate of each
region, aims to ensure the necessary conditions with minimal energy
consumption, utilizing available environmental sources.
• Main aim is to help save energy for lighting as well as heating and cooling of
buildings and adapt buildings to local climate.
• Various techniques used include thermal protection shell, passive solar systems
techniques and natural cooling and natural lighting techniques.
• In final effect safe and comfortable building which is created does not harm
the environment but contributes to its health and enriched biodiversity.

Landscaping and vegetation Openings, semi openings, Ventilation

PRINCIPLES OF BIOCLIMATIC pattern fenestrations
ARCHITETURE

Bioclimatic design takes into

account the local climate and
includes the following principles:
• Heat protection of the buildings in
winter as well as in summer, using
appropriate techniques which are
applied to the external envelope
of the building.
• Appropriate orientation of the
buildings and especially their
openings (preferably towards the Location of water bodies and
south), by the layout of interior evaporative cooling
spaces according to their heating
requirements, and by passive
solar systems which collect solar
radiation and act as “natural”
heating as well as lighting systems.
• Protection of the buildings from
the summer sun, by shading but
also by the appropriate treatment
of the building envelope (i.e. use Building form and Orientation
of reflective colors and surfaces).
• Removal of the heat which
accumulates in summer in the
building to the surrounding
environment using by natural Building Envelope & Materials
means (passive cooling systems
and techniques)
• Improvement – adjustment of
environmental conditions in the
interiors of buildings so that their
inhabitants find them comfortable
and pleasant (i.e. increasing the
air movement inside spaces, heat
storage, or cool storage in walls).
• Ensuring insolation combined with
solar control for daylighting of
buildings, in order to provide Shading Devices
sufficient and evenly distributed
light in interior spaces.
• Improvement of the microclimate
around buildings, through the
bioclimatic design of exterior
spaces and in general, of the built
environment, adhering to all of
the above principles.

EXAMPLES

- Solaris, Singapore
- Sino-Italian Ecological and Energy
Efficient Building, Beijing, China
- East Gate Center, Zimbabwe

BIOCLIMATIC ARCHITECTURE
ANPHY ABRAHAM
ROLL NO 13
S6 B. ARCH