Rural houses with appropriate strategies in northwest China: a practice of ecological houses in Ningxia Province

2010, Volume 4, Issue 4

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Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering >> 2010, Volume 4, Issue 4 doi: 10.1007/s11709-010-0092-4

Rural houses with appropriate strategies in northwest China: a practice of ecological houses in Ningxia Province

1. School of Architecture, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China; 2. Department of Enviroment Design, Xi’an Academy of Fine Art, Xi’an 710065, China; 3. School of Architecture, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710065, China

Available online: 2010-12-05

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Abstract

The severe problem of rural vernacular houses in northwest china is low thermal comfortableness with high consumption of energy in winter. Under such circumstance, the appropriate technologies that create comfortable living environment under the inclement local weather by low cost should be encouraged. In Ningxia Province, Jianfuqiao village, the ecological technologies are presented. By comparing with traditional buildings, the testing and thermal environment analysis verified the effectiveness of the passive used solar technologies.

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rural houses ; ecological technology ; thermal environment ; northwest China

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