Estudio y simulación de la respuesta térmica de dos modelos de vivienda de interés social en las ciudades de Esmeraldas e Ibarra

Abstract

This research studied the influence of building envelope materials on the thermal response to social housing constructed by the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing for Esmeraldas and Ibarra. In Ecuador variables like thermal comfort are not considered to build a house, even when them have a direct effect over the occupation conditions. To improve the number of annual comfort hours is going to be used the passive strategy of changing envelop materials. In the base case the weather, occupation, thermal comfort rank, envelop materials and internal loads are considered for the simulation. In order to find the best materials combinations, the envelop who posed the higher number of annual comfort hours is going to be selected. Esmeraldas can reach 40,88% of annual comfort hours with an envelope of concrete roof, brick walls and concrete floor, meanwhile Ibarra has 42,70% annual comfort hours with roof tile, brick walls and stave and brick floor. Solar incidence has a direct influence over the thermal comfort. In Esmeraldas’s urbanizations the low solar incidence improves the annual thermal comfort, for Ibarra’s urbanization a high solar incidence increases the annual thermal comfort.