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Fig. 2.1
The CDdI-CIESOL-ARFRISOL building
insulation and an internal wall of high thermal inertia. This kind of enclosure of
high thermal inertia combined with the appropriate use of thermal insulation, pro-
duce a delay in the indoor environmental conditions in relation to the external ones,
and moreover, they are able to buffer daily indoor temperature fluctuations inside
the building.
Another applied strategy has been the setback of the windows which face south
and east to avoid the direct influence of solar radiation in hot months, and allow the
input of radiation in winter, see Fig.
2.3
. Furthermore, the roof of the building has
been shaded in two different ways in order to avoid the direct effect of solar radiation.
In the following sections all these strategies are explained in detail.
2.2 Assumed Strategies/Actions
As was mentioned previously, the building was built based on different bioclimatic
architecture criteria. Thus, it includes several passive strategies which allow to make
the most of the environmental characteristics of the site where the building is located,
and other active strategies which make use of renewable energies, such as the HVAC
system based on solar cooling.
