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WORLD JOURNAL OF INNOVATION AND MODERN TECHNOLOGY (WJIMT )

E-ISSN 2504-4766
P-ISSN 2682-5910
VOL. 8 NO. 5 2024
DOI: 10.56201/wjimt.v8.no5.2024.pg111.128

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Importance of Passive Architectural Illumination and Ventilation of buildings in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

Gwenbiri Paul Kenneth

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Abstract

Studies Have shown that, though Passive Architectural Illumination and Ventilation are one of the basics of Architectural design to bring about comfort in interior places, modern Architects of today tend to forget their importance. Passive transcend looks, which is one of the major focus of today’s architecture in most regions of Nigeria. This Article emphasizes on buildings / modern buildings in Yenagoa, it cuts across building designs in other regions of the world. The use of narrow trim windows in place of large wide windows to drive in daylight and air into a building interior is the order of the day, though this practice can be aesthetically pleasing, to some extent but it also gives the building large surface area to receive solar radiation gain which in turn generates heat in the interior spaces and destabilize thermal comfort. Illumination (daylighting) comes with solar radiation gain which this paper takes into consideration, the use of appropriate techniques to fend off unwanted solar ray and effectively introduces daylight into interior spaces. Yenagoa the capital city of Bayelsa state, like in other suburbs in Nigeria is dense with houses with poor ventilation and daylight there is also flooding issue that affect most low land areas of the state. This paper is to correct and throw light on measures Appling the Passive Architectural Approach to achieve daylighting and natural ventilation.

keywords:

passive Architecture, Illumination, Ventilation, suburbs.

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