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.
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.
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.
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.