Influence of the Passive Design of a Building Facade on the Indoor Thermal Comfort of Residential Buildings

Building facades have evident effects on indoor thermal comfort. Hence, the basis of a multifunctional residential building in Sydney, Australia, this research uses DesignBuilder software to optimize passive system design facades. This also analyses influences changing window glazing type, adding additional shading devices and material exterior wall Results show that number uncomfortable hours can be reduced by 446, 186 874 using double-layer Low-E glass, extra device adopting an external with low conductivity, respectively. When three aforementioned strategies are combined, environment discomfort time 24%. Therefore, comfort considerably improved through effective designs facade.