This document discusses comfort requirements in tropical buildings. It defines comfort as a feeling of pleasurable ease, well-being, and contentment inside a building. Comfort has both psychological and physical aspects. Psychological comfort relates to human needs for safety, happiness, etc., while physical comfort is measurable and includes spatial, auditoria, visual, and thermal comfort. Spatial comfort involves adequate space dimensions. Auditoria comfort ensures the right noise levels. Visual comfort provides sufficient, quality lighting. Thermal comfort keeps temperature, humidity, airflow, and radiant sources within a comfortable range.

1. COMFORT REQUIREMENTS
IN TROPICAL BUILDING
SITI YAUMILIA SALSA
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2. Fuction of building
• To protect ourselves from
undesirable climate.
• Buildings serve several needs of
society – primarily as shelter
from weather, security, living
space, privacy, to store
belongings, and to comfortably
live and work. A building as a
shelter represents a physical
division of the human habitat (a
place of comfort and safety) and
the outside (a place that at times
may be harsh and harmful).

3. Comfort in building
• A condition or feeling of
pleasurable ease, well-
being, and contentment
inside the building
• Comfort (or comfortability,
or being comfortable) is a
sense of physical or
psychological ease, often
characterized as a lack
of hardship.

4. Psychological comfort
• Psychological comfort
related to the need of
human being towards safety,
comfortable, happines, etc.
• Because of the personal
nature of positive
associations, psychological
comfort is highly subjective
• This type of comfort is
qualitative and not
measurable.

5. Physical comfort
• Physical comfort is the feeling
of well being brought about by
internal and environmental
conditions that are
experienced as agreeable and
associated with contentment
and satisfaction.
• This type of comfort is
measurable quantitatively.
• The physical comforts, consists
of spatial comfort, visual
comfort, auditoria comfort,
and thermal comfort

6. Spatial comfort
●Spatial comfort relates to the enclosure
space dimensions (effectively size)
●It expresses in the unit of meter (m),
square meter (m3) or cubic meter
(m3)
●It relates to the human dimension
(anthropometry) and the human
bodily movement spaces (ergonomic)
● This means aspects of furniture
comfort and work station design and
lay-out, including storage, size of
workspace, availability of meeting
room and lounges circulation, and
type of furniture.

7. Auditoria comfort
• Auditoria comfort
(db, sound levels)
• Auditoria comfort
means having the
right level and
quality of noise to
use the space as
intended.

8. Visual comfort
• Visual comfort(lux, light
levels/illuminance:the
amount of light falling on
a surface)
• Maintaining visual
comfort means ensuring
that people have enough
light for their activities,
the light has the right
quality and balance, and
people have good views.

9. Thermal comfort
• Thermal comfort (oc,F)
• Maintaining a person’s
thermal comfort means
ensuring that they don’t
feel too hot or too cold.
This means keeping the
temperature, humidity,
airflow and radiant
sources within acceptable
range.

10. References
• http://www.thefreedictionary.com/comfort
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort
• http://sustainabilityworkshop.autodesk.com/
buildings/occupant-
comfort#sthash.1Pqq2WVM.dpuf
• http://Wikipedia.com
• http://studyusa.com/blogs/studylifeusa/libera
l-what/