ASSIGNMENT 01: LIGTHING AND VAC DESIGN FOR COMFORT​
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Choose a room/space where you most frequently use for work purposes as your site.
Map out and record down all main electrical fixtures namely, lighting and ventilation.
Draw out the electrical wiring (make informed assumptions, where not visible, based on your knowledge attained from lectures) to the switches.
Using yourself as the Client, observe what are the discomfort/problems with the existing lighting and ventilation and re-design the room within the scope of lighting and VAC equipment. Your justifications for change may be for enhanced comfort, eco-friendliness or aesthetics. Just ensure each change is justified.
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PROJECT 2
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ASSIGNMENT 02: Indoor Comfort Design and ‘Invention’​
02a: Recording and measurement of 4 facings of external walls of chosen building [10%]
Students are to use their current home or a convenient residential building as their site.
Identify the facings (N,E,S,W) of the 4 external walls. Identify their materials and estimate/measure their dimensions. Measure each wall’s internal and external temperature at 3 different times of the day. 7 a.m., 12 p.m. and 5 p.m. Calculate the heat transfer, based on relevant examples.
Conclude and briefly reflect on this section by identifying the wall panel that is most critical/highest heat gain/most utilised space for Part 2b.
