Conference Paper

Proceedings of BSO Conference 2018: Fourth Conference of IBPSA-England

Optimizing Interior Layout for Effective Experiential Indoor Environmental Quality in Low-income Tenement Unit: A Case of Mumbai, India

Ahana Sarkar, Ronita Bardhan

Abstract: This study intends to optimise the interior layout of tenement unit in a low-income urban habitat to obtain the maximum experiential indoor environmental quality within the breathing zone. A variety of interior layouts using partition wall and furniture position was generated for optimising the design layout that could maximise indoor environment quality. This study followed "Sampling-based Parametric Modelling- CFD Simulation- Multi-objective Optimization" based framework. The optimized interior design delivered indoor air velocity of 0.58m/sec when outdoor wind velocity was as low as 0.9m/sec in nat-vent condition. The experiential indoor air temperature was recorded 301.05K (27.9ᵒC) over the breathing zone during cooking condition (heat source temperature: 308K i.e. 35ᵒC). This study intends to develop a methodology for optimising interior layout design in a bid to offer ideas to address the current incongruity and poor synergy between architectural design and technological analysis.
Pages: 527 - 534
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