Designing an Individually Controlled System based on children’s’ perception and preferences of IEQ in a classroom

Abstract (2018)

Authors

D. Zhang Indoor Environment - Architecture and the Built Environment
M.J. Tenpierik Building Physics - Architecture and the Built Environment
P.M. Bluyssen Indoor Environment - Architecture and the Built Environment
Research Group
Indoor Environment (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2018 D. Zhang, M.J. Tenpierik, P.M. Bluyssen
Indoor Environmental Quality Classrooms Preference Primary schools Individual control
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Published Date

2018

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Architectural Engineering +Technology

Research Group

Indoor Environment

Abstract

This paper aims to design an “individually controlled system” (ICS) for children in class-rooms based on their preferences and needs. It is well known that a higher satisfaction of in-door environmental quality (IEQ), including thermal, air, visual and acoustical quality, can be achieved by giving occupants control over their local environment. However, knowledge about individual control of IEQ in classrooms by children is still limited. Based on a field sur-vey conducted in in 21 primary schools (54 classrooms with children aging from 9 to 12) in The Netherlands and a lab study performed in the SenseLab (a semi-lab environment at the premises of the TU Delft) of circa 350 children of some of the schools studied, in which pref-erences and needs of pupils, as well as perception about control of their individual IEQ, were collected, the first prototype of an ICS to improve their local environmental quality will be designed.