Additionaly Realised Living Attics
Bardejov, Slovakia


Pavol Durica . . . . . . Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Kosice, Slovakia
Dusan Blasko . . . . . Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Kosice, Slovakia

Content

Background

In connection with question of humanisation living houses and block of flats are getting to the front problems with living attics in Slovakia. Either living uderroofing spaces or superstructures above defecting roofs are concerned.
Living attics are different from the other indoor spaces and they require special pretensions on design. Their covering constructions usually have a good thermal insolation, but low thermal accumulation properties. Because of this slanting position as a part of the exterior covering constructions they are exposed to higher effects of climate influances. The optimal design of peripheral wall and heating system is complicated.

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Introduction

We choose a design of the new mesonet flat, that is realised as a building above the roofing flat. The flat is situated on the additionaly built on the block of flats in town Bardejov (North-east part of Slovakia).
The peripheral walls are created from the brick materials Porotherm, roofing constructions are made as a light sandwich constructions, windows and roofing windows are settled from wooden material with double glazing system. The wiew on the evaluated building we can see on the fig. 1.

Figure 1. The wiew on the building with additionaly realised attics.

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Model and climate

The computer model of the living attic was created based on geometrical and contructional data provided by the architect. Modelling can be seen as the process of re-expressing the building designin a manner suitable for simulation.

Figure 2. Example of our simple building model definition.


A climate Test Reference Year was based on hourly measurements at Bratislava-Koliba station.

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Simulation results

As can be seen from figure 3 indoor temperatures as high as almost 25 grad C in summer months (July and August), but indoors spaces are not overheated. Because of the fact that the big parts of the envelopes are made from materials, that have good thermal accumulation properties.

Figure 3. Example of indoor and outdoor temperatures.

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Conclusion

It was the first case study of the group of Kosice that was realised as a part of Tempus project. The purpose of this study is to show building energy and environmental simulation by ESP-r program from University of Strathclyde Glasgow.

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