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Currently, one of the main causes of environmental deterioration is the increasing rates of power consumption that, at the same time, are a consequence of numerous actions in all sectors. In the architecture and design field, the lack of good environmental comfort conditions in buildings is the main cause behind increased power consumption, because improperly ventilated and illuminated buildings, require mechanical strategies to regulate indoor environmental conditions. This is the reason why it is fundamental to develop tools that allow designers to incorporate environmental control strategies into design processes, to guarantee optimal indoor bioclimatic conditions. Thus, the objective of this chapter is to develop a tool that defines bioclimatic strategies for the first stages of building design and to generate good comfort conditions inside buildings. First, an analysis of climatic conditions in different climates was made in two Colombian cities: Medellin and Barranquilla, and then monthly comfort indexes were defined with their corresponding climatic correction strategies to guarantee comfort conditions, before finally proposing architectural and building strategies to achieve these climatic corrections. As a result, a highly usable tool is created, that can be used in the first stages of the design process by bioclimate experts and also users with little experience.
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Rendón Gaviria, L., Borja Zuluaga, D., Yepes Ocampo, M. (2023). The Tropical Climate Matrix: An Architectural Design Tool for the Tropics. In: Marín-Restrepo, L., Pérez-Fargallo, A., Piderit-Moreno, M.B., Trebilcock-Kelly, M., Wegertseder-Martínez, P. (eds) Removing Barriers to Environmental Comfort in the Global South. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24208-3_13
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