Bioclimatic environment of residential housing in the Municipality of Juárez, Nuevo León

Abstract

Introduction: The external climate together with the architectural design, the materials of the residential housing in suburban area in the Municipality of Juárez, Nuevo León and the construction system determine the thermal performance and its capacity to offer comfortable conditions to the user. Residential housing should provide a comfortable indoor environment that should be reasonably assured regardless of whether fluctuations from outside. The objective of the research is to determine in the indoor environment temporary temperature fluctuations in the summer of residential housing, establishing the degree of the bioclimatic environment. Method: The multimodal type and triangulation were implemented, since the different applied methods offer the quantitative approach of the research objective, facilitating the analysis of the case study and thus be able to evaluate it. This research is based on several types of studies to achieve ideal results such as descriptive, bibliographic and field. Likewise, research is a procedure that allows focusing attention on the behavior of the residential housing case study, to obtain broad and deep information, to contrast it bioclimatically. Results: The climatological evaluation of the last 25 years was strengthened in greater detail to determine the average annual-monthly environmental temperature of the Municipality of Juárez, Nuevo León and in the internal environment of residential housing through bioclimatic graphics and its discussion in tables of the bioclimatic environment, depending on the temperature comfort zone of the study with a model of hourly variation of the comfortable limits that would have thermal advantages, some of them related to the studies on climate adaptation in residential housing. To identify the effects of each constructive variable on environmental comfort or on the energy efficiency of residential housing in the Municipality of Juárez, Nuevo León, the thermal values per temperature were generally calculated, in days-hour-grade, along the days of the month and the typical day, considering the critical month of high temperatures to august in 2017. Conclusion: It explains the quantitative results and the manifestations that improve the understanding of the bioclimatic environment in residential housing.