Study of Climatic Parameters and Residential Housing Structures in Kota Region

Abstract

In this paper climatic parameters and different types of residential buildings in Kota region have been studied. Survey was conducted to assess the common residential building pattern and energy consumption. The survey was focused on the design strategies like orientation, number and size of window, ventilation, overhangs, wall type and thickness, window to wall ratio, percent open area and energy consumption per annum. From the study it has been found that Kota region faces high temperature for almost eight months in the year with relative humidity above comfort level for three months during rain fall. The results revealed that among the surveyed houses maximum (47%) houses have covered area in between 500 Sq ft to 1000 Sq ft, which represents medium size of house. Most of the houses (28%) have open side only in one direction and maximum numbers of houses (47.33%) has 10% and below 10% open area. Most of the houses (74%) have ventilators and (33.33%) have windows with glass glazing and wood/iron frame. The window to wall ratio for maximum houses (47.33%) houses is in the range 10% to 20%. The electricity consumption reveals that maximum number of houses (33.33%) winter electricity bill is in the range from 1000 rupees to 1500 rupees and in summer maximum number of houses (24.67%) pays the bill ranges from 2500 rupees to 3000 rupees. Most of the houses (88.66%) use fan and cooler for cooling, as these mainly belong to middle class and lower middle class families. People are not aware of passive measures and building construction is not taking into account the various methods. Therefore it becomes important that construction industry and people should be made aware of simple passive measures for enhancing thermal comfort with reduced power consumption.