LITERATURE REVIEW

• Bio-climate chart, Mahoney table: Identify passive solar design

strategies [3].
• Bioclimatic chart : analysis tool -building project -effects of climatic
elements assembled into the single chart [3].
• Mahoney Table: Thermal comfort analysis tool using temperature and
humidity data ; Design guidelines [1].
• Olgyay (1963): First bioclimatic chart - outdoor climate conditions :
only applicable for hot humid climates [4].
• Givoni (1963) : Indoor conditions -psychometric chart: widely used to
identify passive design [4].
• Control potential zone is another graphical method based on the
standard psychrometric chart [1].
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