Visualizing thermal comfort in residential passive house designs
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Abstract
Energy use for thermal comfort in housing accounts for a large share of total energy use in many countries. The housing sector has the potential to lower the demand for heating and cooling through better building designs, such as the passive house concept. This concept integrates building technologies, energy systems and activities performed by end-users in their everyday lives to minimise the use of external energy sources for thermal comfort. In this study we propose a methodology based on the combination of personal diary data and their in-context interactive visualization as a promising approach to study and better understand thermal comfort in private spheres. We collected activity diaries from residents in a new display city district called Vallastaden in Linköping, Sweden. Passive house designs were promoted in Vallastaden and around 10 percent of the new housing was built with this concept. Activity and thermal comfort data from the diaries were digitalised and coded. Following this the data were represented and visually explored using an adapted, for the purpose, version of a visual analysis tool.
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