Thermal Comfort
Thermal comfort refers to a period of desirable temperature in a given climate. In this section, this interval in Ilam City was examined with respect to the climate placement. The range of thermal comfort in this city is 17-25℃. Accordingly, the number of days during which the temperature in Ilam is within this range were specified and examined based on the data obtained from Ilam Meteorological Organization11http://www.ilammet.ir/ . As shown in Figure 4, the results demonstrated that Sample F had the best performance due to its extent of transparency and thermal comfort conditions.
Given the suitable proportion between wall transparency and the total area of the building, Sample F was found to have the best adaptability to the natural environment under thermal comfort conditions during both hot and cold periods of the year.
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Figure 4.: The extent of each sample’s placement within the temperature range of thermal comfort in Ilam City during a year.