Awareness of BS-Architecture 3rd Year Students of U.M.

in the Benefits of Wooden

Made House in Providing Thermal Comfort
Joshua P. Haban and Iluminado D. Quinto Jr.
Haban, Joshua P., College of Architecture and Fine Arts Education, University of Mindanao, Philippines
Quinto, Ilumindao Jr. D., College of Architecture and Fine Arts Education, University of Mindanao,
Philippines

Abstract
This study shows the awareness of the BS-Architecture 3rd year student of UM in the benefits of wooden
made house in Davao City in providing thermal comfort. By doing so, it can help the students to be more
knowledgeable in this field especially in the analysis of thermal comfort to wood housing. The first problem that
comes up in the study is if the BS-Architecture 3rd year students have enough knowledge in the thermal
comfortability of wooden-made house. The results in this study show that most BS-Architecture 3rd year
students don’t have enough knowledge in the thermal comfortability of wooden-made house. The study also
shows that the level of awareness of BS-Architecture 3rd year student is in between good and poor, however,
most of the BS-Architecture 3rd year students wants to be aware or more aware in the benefits of wooden-
made house in providing thermal comfort.

Keywords: thermal comfort; wooden made; house; awareness; benefits

1. Introduction themselves and one is interested to know the extent

to which different conditions and situations are
The thermal comfort in an environment obtained among these subjects.
could be described as the fulfillment of well-being
tried out by any individuals, as the outcome of the
satisfactory combination, in housing environment, of
the measure average temperature of the surfaces
that surround a particular point with which it will
exchange thermal radiation and of the RT ( relative
humidity), in the ambient temperature and the
clothes that individual wear inside a house.
(Ruas,1999)
The wood is a natural thermal insulation
to presents large versatility which also demonstrated
by a large variety of products. This group is the result
of a spectrum of characteristics or physical
properties desirable among the many species of
wood. (Simpson & Tenwolde, 1999)
The third year Architecture student of the
University of Mindanao must be attentive and
knowledgeable for circumstances that could occur in
the future pertaining the benefits of using wood in
housing for thermal comfortability. As a future
Architect, providing a proper and correct application
of materials and utilizing the benefits of wood in
housing is a must. Thus, the first step on it is being Fig. 2.1 Flow chart of the procedures followed in conducting this
aware. study.
This study will find out the awareness of
Bachelor of Science in Architecture Students in the The study was conducted online though social media
benefits of wooden-made house in providing thermal sites, groups and messenger of College of
comfort. Architecture and Fine Arts Education of University of
2. Methodology Mindanao, Davao City
The researchers used the descriptive The following are the procedures followed
design, particularly, descriptive survey. This type is by the researcher to get sufficient information from
suitable whether the subjects vary among the respondents (BS-Architecture 3rd year students
from UM) benefits
Preparing the questionnaires Of wooden-
The researcher used a researcher-made survey made
house?
questionnaire as a test comprised of substantial
questions regarding their knowledge in awareness in
Table 2.3
the benefits of wooden-made house in providing QUESTION YES NO TOTAL
thermal comfort. 1.) Do you want to be 37 4 41
Conducting the study aware or more aware in
a. The researcher went online through social media the benefits of wooden-
made house in providing
sites to ask all the BS-Architecture 3rd year student
thermal comfort?
of UM to answer a google form due to pandemic and
avoid face to face physical interaction. The Statistical technique used is analyzing
b. The researcher administered the link for survey and interpreting the data and testing the hypothesis
questionnaire. of the study includes the weighted arithmetic means.
c. The researcher instructed the questionnaire one (ANOVA)
time only. Weighted mean was used to determine the
d. The researcher instructed the respondents to level of awareness of the BS-Architecture 3rd year
choose from yes or no in part 1 of the students in the benefits of wooden-made house in
questionnaire, range from 1-5 in part 2 and yes or no providing thermal comfort.
in part 3.
e. The researcher analyzed the result of the
questionnaire through google sheet.
∑𝑓𝑥
𝑥̅ =
Tabulating and analyzing the data ∑𝑓
This section shows the data that was
collected by the researchers. The first table shows if
Fig. 2.2 Weighted Arithmetic mean
the BS-Architecture students have a knowledge in
the benefits of wooden-made house in providing Table 2.4
thermal comfort and its benefits. The second table f x fx
shows the rating of the level of awareness of BS- 5 4 20
Architecture 3rd year students in the benefits of 15 3 45
wooden-made house in providing thermal comfort. 21 2 42
The third table shows if the BS-Architecture 41 107 Total
3rd year students wants to be aware or not in the
benefits of wooden-made house and in providing
thermal comfort. ∑𝑓𝑥
Table 2.1 𝑥̅ =
∑𝑓
QUESTIONS YES NO TOTAL
1.) Do you know the thermal 19 22 41
comfortability of wooden- 107
= 41
made house?
2.) Have you ever 3 38 41
experienced thermal
comfort living in a wooden = 2.61
made house?
3.) Do you know what the 10 31 41 From the tabulated and analyzed data, the
benefits of wooden-made researcher then draws conclusions to answer the
house are in providing questions posted prior to the conduct of the study.
thermal comfort? The researchers used the questionnaire for
gathering of data in determining the relationship of
the variables that the researcher had given.
Table 2.2
QUESTION RATINGS TOTAL
Expert Very Aware Not Ignorant
1. How Aware Aware 41
aware are 5 4 3 2 1
you in the 5 15 21
 one (1) as their rating in their level of awareness.
3. Results and Discussions There are five (5) BS-Architecture 3rd year students
who chose four (4), fifteen (15) BS-Architecture 3rd
year students who chose three (3), and twenty-one
38
40 (21) BS-Architecture 3rd year students who chose
35 31 two(2).
30
25 22
19 40
20
35
15
10 30
10
3 25
5
0 0
0 20
Q1 Q2 Q3 15

Yes No
Fig. 3.1 Part 1 of questionnaire
Figure 3.1 shows that there are nineteen
(19) BS-Architecture 3rd year students who knows
the thermal comfortability of wooden-made house
and twenty-two (22) who are not in question 1. There
are three (3) BS-Architecture 3rd year students have
experienced thermal comfort living in a wooden-
made house and thirty-eight (38) BS-Architecture 3rd
year students who have not experienced thermal
comfort living in wooden-made house in question 2.
And lastly, there are ten (10) BS-Architecture 3rd year
students who knows the benefits of wooden-made
house in providing thermal comfort and thirty-one
(31) BS-Architecture students who are not in
question 3.
25
20
15
10
5 students in the benefits of wooden-made house in
0
5 4 3 2
5 4 3 2
Fig.3.2 Part 2 in questionnaire
10
5
0
Yes No
Yes No
Fig. 3.3 Part 3 of questionnaire
Figure 3.3 show that there are thirty-seven
(37) BS-Architecture 3rd year students who want to
be aware or more aware in the benefits of wooden-
made house in providing thermal comfort and four (4)
BS-Architecture 3rd year students who are not.
The results of the study show that:
The majority of the population of BS-
Architecture 3rd year students did not have enough
knowledge in the thermal comfortability of wooden-
made house and its benefits and picks NO in part 1
of the questionnaire; twenty-two (22) out of forty-one
(41) in Q1, thirty-eight (38) out of forty-one (41) in Q2,
and thirty-one (31) out of forty-one (41) in Q3.
The study shows arithmetic mean of 2.61
which fall in between of good and poor as a rating of
level of awareness of BS-Architecture 3rd year
providing thermal comfort where; 1-very poor, 2-poor,
1 3-good, 4-very good, and 5-outstanding.
The study shows that most of the
1
population of the BS-Architecture 3rd year students
wants to be aware or more aware in the benefits of
wooden-made house in providing thermal comfort.

Figure 3.2 show that there is zero (0) BS-

Architecture 3rd year students who chose five (5) and
4. Conclusions and Recommendations
Therefore, the researchers conclude base
in the results of the study that BS-Architecture 3rd
year students of UM did not have enough knowledge
in the benefits of wooden-made house in providing
thermal comfort. Thus, they are unaware. However,
base on the results also, the BS-Architecture did
want to be aware or more aware in the benefits of
wooden-made house in providing thermal comfort.
Having undertaken this study; presented,
analyzed, and interpreted the findings, the
researcher proposed the following
recommendations:
1. That there shall be further and follow-up studies
Regarding the awareness in the benefits of wooden-
made house in providing thermal comfort in large
scale not only in the Architecture, but also in other
fields concerned with thermal comfort.
2. That there shall be researches in finding suitable
wood/s that will maximize thermal comfort in housing
specifically in Davao City as a follow-up study.

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