الفهرس 
Principles of Natural V Principles of Natural Ventilation for Hot Arid ClimateOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Air is an essential element to human life as it affects indoor air quality, thermal comfort, and energy saving, so ventilating interior space is important. Today, indoor air quality, thermal comfort, and energy saving are important fields for architects and issues in spaces. In the early design stages, architects main focus on the general mass, layout, geometry, and shape of buildings than on details of components as spaces arrangements. So, one of the important issues in early design stages is spatial configurations.
The main aim of this research was improving the performance of natural ventilation in hot arid climates by using the effect of spatial configurations, explored and investigated the correlation between spatial configurations, and natural ventilation of a low-cost residential units in hot-arid climates to help architects at early design stages to predict ventilation.
The layout of a social housing prototype in El-Shourouk city was chosen as a case study. The study was applied on two units with two different orientations. This thesis’s objective was to present research that make a space self-sufficient. It would give an analytical examination of some of the most prevalent problems with natural ventilation and climate change that the society in Egypt is currently facing. Finally, this thesis would attempt to outline the key implications of interior architecture and identify design approaches that enabled interior spaces to function positively in response to climatic changes.
Different configurations were modeled by using designbuilder and investigated using EnergyPlus as a CFD simulation engine to study their effectiveness on wind velocity and internal temperature. The scope of the research was conducted within six different configurations included (orientation, size and openings). CFD simulations showed that configuration E give most effective average wind velocity for both unit 1 and unit 2 while all configurations had a significant effect on average internal temperature.