A field survey in Calcutta. Architectural issues, thermal comfort and adaptive mechanisms in hot humid climates

Proceedings of 7th Windsor Conference: The Changing Context of Comfort in an Unpredictable World

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pellegrino, Margot ^a   Simonetti, Marco ^a   Fournier, Laurent ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive comfort; Field survey; Quality of architecture; Tropical climate

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE COMFORT; COMFORT PERCEPTION; FIELD SURVEYS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEUTRAL TEMPERATURE; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT; SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS; TROPICAL CLIMATES;

ARCHITECTURE; COLLEGE BUILDINGS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84893116870     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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