ARCH2616ASSIGNMENT 4

LUCY YU

4.1 Climate Analysis

Toronto has cold winters and warm summers leading to a parabolic curve of varying degrees for all
the measured parameters, in contrast to the more or less uniform values for Kuala Lumpur, which
one can immediately infer is hot and humid with a lot of sunshine year round.
In Toronto, the dry bulb temperature peaks around 25 degrees celsius during July, and drops to -6
around January. The city is known for its humid summers, which is apparent in the increasing disparity between wet and dry bulb temperatures during the summer months - wet bulb temperatures
peak around 20 degrees, and is more or less in line with the dry bulb temperature (-5 to 5 degree
range) during cooler months. Kuala Lumpurs dry bulb temperature consistently peaks at 30 degrees all year, and the wet bulb temperature follows the linear trend staying around 25 degrees.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada // Kppen climate classification Dfa

In terms of radiation, the global horizontal irradiance in Toronto follows the parabolic trend where
winter months only see an average 350wh/m2 of irradiance in January, but jumps to about 725 wh/
m2 in July. As direct normal irradiance and diffuse horizontal irradiance are both components of
GHI, they too follow the parabolic trend - DFI is at its lowest peak around 100 Wh/m2 in December
and at its highest in June at 325 Wh/m2, while DNI is about 250 Wh/m2 in December, and peaks
around 525 Wh/m2 in July. In comparison, all three radiation values stay more or less static all year
in Malaysia - GHI hovers around 600 Wh/m2, DFI stays around 480 Wh/m2, and DNI stays around
150 Wh/m2.
Given these differences in Toronto and Malaysia because of their different regions in the Kppen
Climate classification, the only similarity is that both cities are not in the comfort zone for most of
the year.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia // Kppen climate classification Af

4.2 Diagramming Passive Strategies

VERNACULAR MALAY HOUSE // KUALA LUMPUR

Given that the climate of the Malaysian peninsula is so hot, humid,

and sunny all year round, the majority of the passive design inherent
in the vernacular Malay homes relates to keeping the temperature on
the inside as cool and comfortable as possible

4.3 Comfort and Psychrometric Processes