Comfort Temperatures for the Low-Income Group in a Hot-Humid Climate

The results presented in this paper are part of the doctoral research that is being done at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. One of the main objectives is to find the level of thermal comfort accepted by people from the low-income group in Surakarta, Indonesia. Personal aspects (gender and clothing index), characteristics of the...

Healthy and comfortable dwellings for the low-income settlements in Surakarta

Technology for the low-income group of people should be as simple as their daily life. Giving recommendations for simple dwelling design and changing people’s behaviour for a better living are the concerns of this research. A field-survey was conducted in November-December 2010 involving 426 respondents from four low-income kampongs in Surakarta...

Thermal comfort in the different settings of low-income dwellings in Surakarta, Indonesia

As a preparation to develop guidelines and design principles for better dwellings in the tropics, a pilot survey was conducted to get data of the current situation of thermal comfort in the dwellings of low-income people in Surakarta, Central Java - Indonesia. These improper dwellings which locate nearby the rivers have ever been hit by big...