Designing outdoor spaces with COMFORT-EX

Ochoa, J.; Marincic, I.
Year:
2006
Bibliographic info:
Energy Performance and Environmental Quality of Buildings, International Workshop (EPEQUB 2006), Milos Island, Greece, 6 & 7 July 2007

In this paper we are introducing the first versionof COMFORT-EX, a computational tool, with afriendly interface, developed in Java languageand visible from any computer with an Internetbrowser. This tool pretends to assist architects,landscape architects and urban planners to determinethe correct design strategies to followfor a project in specific climate conditions. Italso helps to evaluate the thermal comfort sensation,and to make the pertinent corrections ifnecessary. A selected case study sited in thecampus of the University of Sonora, evaluatedwith COMFORT-EX, is described.

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