IMPROVEMENT OF THERMAL ENVIRONMENT BY BUILDING ARRANGEMENT IN THE RIVERSIDE TOWNHOUSES

A group of 2-story detached houses is built next to a river stretching from south to north. There aremore than hundreds of houses, called the riverside townhouses in this study, in the construction site. Acoupled simulation of convection, radiation and conduction is conducted to evaluate the outdoorthermal environment from the viewpoint of building arrangement. According to the real weather data,two different wind directions (SSE and ENE) are examined. At first, this paper evaluates the airtemperature and wind distribution according to the arrangement of buildings in the current constructionplan. A building arrangement scenario is then proposed and examined to analyze the outdoor thermalenvironment. Totally, there are four cases calculated in this study. Finally, the significant improvement ofthermal environment for the riverside townhouses is observed from the simulation results.