Verifying the reasons of the distance for the setbacks in traditional houses in Beni Isguen GARDAIA

Abstract

The tertiary residential sector in Algeria is the largest consumer of energy, with 36% of total final energy, considering that the priority is to fight against waste in the residential sector because it does not produce wealth unlike industry and transport, but also an opportunity to protect the environment by reducing the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions. This thesis is considered as a contribution to the evaluation of the energy performance of a bioclimatic house. The objective is not only to evaluate but also to improve the energy and environmental performance of this bioclimatic house located in Ghardaïa in the M’zab valley in southern of Algeria named Ksar of beni isguen by changing the distance between this house and the neighboring houses to help cool the house with natural ventilation. The methodology consists in the first place of making simulations on this house using the software Pleiades and méteonorm with scenarios of occupants, dissipated power, cooling schedule and ventilation, then add Mask around this house and varies the distance between them to find the optimal distance. The results obtained show that in summer conditions, the best distance that separates the house is 1m because it will lower the temperature by 4 degrees.