Design of a bioclimatic and sustainable housing model

Abstract

An initiative of development for the people of El Salvador is established by analyzing and developing a comfortable house that provides economic benefits to the inhabitants, but, at the same time, is environmentally friendly. The project is based on theories that establish criteria and elements of bioclimatic and sustainable architecture, which are later adapted to the national reality, concluding in a potential for the use of solar energy as an energy source for the house, the use of rain as water recycling and for temperature control inside the house, and the circulation of fresh air inside the proposed structure. Three types of experiments where used to support the project: the measuring of internal and external temperatures of three houses in three different locations in San Salvador city; the use of a virtual model to determine the behavior of the house to the sun exposure; and a third experiment which consists in the construction of a wind tunnel and a model of the house to determine the movement of the air flow inside the building.