THERMAL COMFORT AMELIORATION IN HOT & DRY CLIMATE HABITAT

Abstract

This master thesis is concerned with the eco-design of a group of individual houses representing the architectural identity of the city of Ouargla. To do this, we applied an urban analysis combining typo-morphological and sensory analysis to be able to identify the features of the local architecture while studying the dimension of experience. Our analysis also shows that local architecture has a bioclimatic potential to achieve a better level of thermal comfort than that obtained by contemporary architecture which takes little or no account of local architecture. The eco-design of the group of individual houses is based on an architectural and urban composition inspired by the local architecture and optimised through dynamic thermal simulations.