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<p>This paper explores the impact of balconies on the energy demand required for cooling in the arid climate zone of the city of Adrar, in Algeria. For the purpose to assess several situations of the balconies, we have chosen a parametric method based on a campaign of thermal simulations. The open and eliminated balcony type were selected and characterized by four parameters: the balcony to room ratio, the orientation, the window type, and the balcony position. A set of 100 simulations was selected randomly based on the Monte-Carlo probability technique. The final sample was corrected based on Cook’s distance which gave 85 simulations as a final sample size. A generalized regression model was performed to identify the impact of each parameter. The accuracy of the model is above 97% and the sensitivity analysis shows that the most important factor is the balcony to room ratio which could reduce the energy demand up to 26% followed by the window type (24%), the orientation (8%) and the balcony position (5%). This conclusion stresses the idea of considering the balcony as a passive solution to reduce the cooling energy demand.</p>
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This paper explores the impact of balconies on the energy demand required for cooling in the arid climate zone of the city of Adrar, in Algeria. For the purpose to assess several situations of the balconies, we have chosen a parametric method based on a campaign of thermal simulations. The open and eliminated balcony type were selected and characterized by four parameters: the balcony to room ratio, the orientation, the window type, and the balcony position. A set of 100 simulations was selected randomly based on the Monte-Carlo probability technique. The final sample was corrected based on Cook’s distance which gave 85 simulations as a final sample size. A generalized regression model was performed to identify the impact of each parameter. The accuracy of the model is above 97% and the sensitivity analysis shows that the most important factor is the balcony to room ratio which could reduce the energy demand up to 26% followed by the window type (24%), the orientation (8%) and the balcony position (5%). This conclusion stresses the idea of considering the balcony as a passive solution to reduce the cooling energy demand.

Exploring the impact of balconies on cooling energy demand in an arid climate zone

Ecole polytechnique d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme (EPAU), Laboratoire Ville

Selected Scientific Papers - Journal of Civil Engineering

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This paper explores the impact of balconies on the energy demand required for cooling in the arid climate zone of the city of Adrar, in Algeria. For the...

Exploring the impact of balconies on cooling energy demand in an arid climate zone

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 25 - 35

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sspjce-2021-0014

Keywords
Adrar, arid climate zone, balcony, parametric analysis, cooling energy demand

© 2021 Soufiane Boukarta, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Exploring the impact of balconies on cooling energy demand in an arid climate zone

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 25 - 35

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sspjce-2021-0014

KeywordsAdrar, arid climate zone, balcony, parametric analysis, cooling energy demand

© 2021 Soufiane Boukarta, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Adrar, arid climate zone, balcony, parametric analysis, cooling energy demand