| Title |
A Study on the Conservative Building Improvements for Indoor Thermal Environment in a Traditional House of Genjaegotaek |
| Authors |
Kim Myoung-Shin ; Kim Jun-Tae ; Park Hyo-Soon |
| Keywords |
Traditional Folk House ; Building Improvements ; Indoor Thermal Environment ; Energy Simulation |
| Abstract |
Traditional folk houses as cultural assets are required to preserve their original forms, and also need to be maintained a certain level of living standards for residents. These folk houses were built with sustainable structure and material that can contribute to natural environmental control of building. Nevertheless, resident's indoor thermal environment is very inferior to modern living standards and improvements are certainly necessary. The aim of the study is to evaluate the effects of the building improvements on the energy performances of a folk houses. In this study, the simulation program of Visual DOE 3.1 was used to predict annual heating and cooling energy loads in the house, and sensitivity studies were performed to evaluate the impact of those improvements on building energy performance. The subject building in this study was the main house of "Genjaegotaek" (located at Oeam-maeul Asan-city Chung Nam). The simulation of thermal performance of the existing building indicated that the main contributors to the building energy loads were walls and openings(windows and doors), about 50% and 41% to the annual heating loads, about 49% and 24% to the annual cooling loads resp |