| Title |
An Experimental Study on the Thermal and Acoustic Environmental Evaluation of the Korean Traditional Houses in Chonnam Province |
| Authors |
Lee Tai-Kang ; Choi Eun-Seok ; Kim Hang ; Kim Hyung-Ryul ; Kim Sun-Woo |
| Abstract |
Korean Traditional houses has been evolved and developed in many years, adopting the natural environment to control exterior conditions. These control method are various passive system of using natural materials, considering micro climate, building lay out, and these system are more natural and ecological to make the comfortable indoor climate than active systems of the present houses.
This study aims to analyzed the acoustical and thermal comfort characteristics of twelve Korean traditional houses during the summer(2005. 7.30 ～ 8.17). These houses are varied with lay out and floor plan to reflect the way of control for environmental condition, surveyed the reverberation time and sound level difference between rooms of the main living room and other main floored room, master room and kitchen. Especially air temperature, humidity and air velocity have been measured simultaneously in each rooms to compare with outdoor condition.
As a result, the variation of air temperature and humidity of most rooms are considerably static while condition of outdoors are much varied, it is showed that indoor climate has been controled with traditional soiled walls. And the reverberation time of Korean traditional rooms are below 0.6 second, and the sound insulation performance of Korean traditional door are mostly very low grade with D-15. The sound level difference between rooms are low grade not to meet minimum class except between main living room and master room away from main living building. These above results show that our traditional house are much more placed great emphasis on seeking visual privacy of rooms than aural privacy. |