Print Email Facebook Twitter Comfort Temperatures for the Low-Income Group in a Hot-Humid Climate Title Comfort Temperatures for the Low-Income Group in a Hot-Humid Climate Author Arsandrie, Y. Kurvers, S.R. Bokel, R.M.J. Van der Linden, A.C. Faculty Architecture Department Architectural Engineering +Technology Date 2012-12-31 Abstract The results presented in this paper are part of the doctoral research that is being done at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. One of the main objectives is to find the level of thermal comfort accepted by people from the low-income group in Surakarta, Indonesia. Personal aspects (gender and clothing index), characteristics of the dwelling (ventilation, orientation) and surrounding factors (effect of vegetation) were investigated to observe if they significantly influenced the people’s responses. Furthermore, these findings will be used to improve the dwellings in the community. A field-survey was conducted in this research involving 426 people from four kampongs in Surakarta. The neutral temperature in this group is found at 32.5°C and the comfort bandwidth ranges from 30 to 35°C, which is shown by four methods of deriving thermal comfort. Various factors were shown to influence the indoor air temperatures and the thermal response of the people. Subject dwellinghot-humid climatelow-income groupthermal comfort To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:37316020-7574-4fba-b63d-f3bd6a9b8cc9 Publisher Network for Comfort and Energy Use in Buildings (NCEUB) Source Proceedings of the 7th Windsor Conference: The Changing Context of Comfort in an Unpredictable World, Windsor, UK, 12-15 March 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 The Author(s) Files PDF 295306.pdf 1.44 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:37316020-7574-4fba-b63d-f3bd6a9b8cc9/datastream/OBJ/view