Climate Responsive Building Design in the Kathmandu Valley

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 169-176

  Upadhyay, Anir Kumar ^a   Yoshida, Harunori ^b   Rijal, Hom Bahadur ^b  

^a TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate; Comfort; Design guidelines; Energy efficiency; Vernacular architecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649578913     PISSN: 13467581     EISSN: 13472852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3130/jaabe.5.169     Document Type: Article

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