Housing design in relation to environmental comfort: A comparison of the traditional Malay house and modern housing including work in the tripartite programme between universiti sains Malaysia, the welsh school of architecture and the UK building research establishment

Building Research & Information

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 49-54

  Rahman, Abdul Malik Abdul ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

low cost housing; Malaysia; thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUILDING MATERIALS; CLIMATE CONTROL; COSTS; MATERIALS TESTING; MONITORING; PERFORMANCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VENTILATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL COMFORT; INDOOR THERMAL PERFORMANCE; LOW COST HOUSING; MALAYSIA; MEAN RADIANT TEMPERATURE; THERMAL COMFORT;

HOUSES;

EID: 0029184470     PISSN: 09613218     EISSN: 14664321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09613219508727423     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Malik, A. and Shukor, A. (1993) Human Thermal Comfort In Tropical Climates, A PhD. thesis submitted to The Bartlett School of Architecture, Building, Environmental Design and Planning, University College London, January.
2. Mahyuddin, M.R. (1993) Low-Cost Housing Design ‘The Model House’, Paper presented in the Symposium and Exhibition on Low-Cost Housing at The Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, 9–11 December 1993.
3. Rahman, A.M.A. (1994) Design for Natural Ventilation in Low-Cost Housing in Tropical Climates, A PhD thesis (in preparation), The University of Wales.
4. Hanafi, Z. (1994) Housing design in relation to environmental comfort — a comparison of the traditional Malay house and modern housing, Building Research and Information 22, 21–33.