The impact of building surface optimization and dynamic control on climate adaptation

Abstract

This study designed a simple residential unit model with dynamic climate-adaptive building skins and developed five skin control modes to analyse their impact on building climate adaptability. The main purpose of this study is to design building skin schemes and control modes with better climate adaptability. The experimental results show that the illumination and humidity control effect of the illumination mode group is the best, and its temperature control performance is also relatively good. It is the scheme with the best overall control performance. Its comfortable illumination time ratio and comfortable humidity time ratio are 65.2 and 76.3%, respectively, which are significantly higher than those of the other schemes. The absolute differences between the average room temperature and target temperature median values in the illumination mode group are 25.7 and 1.7°C, respectively, with minimal differences in temperature control effects compared with those of the other experimental groups. The experimental results indicate that controlling the opening and closing angles of building louvres according to the illumination of solar radiation can maximise the dynamic climate adaptability of the building. The results of this study will provide some useful references for improving the climate adaptability of civil buildings.