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STUDY OF THE NATURAL BUILDING MATERIALS ON BUILDING DESIGN

IN BELUM RAINFOREST RESORT, PULAU BANDING TO ACHIEVE

THERMAL COMFORT

Research Question :

What are the main factors affecting thermal comfort

What are the properties of each natural building materials

- Timber

- Concrete

- Rammed Earth

How does each of the natural building materials help to achieve thermal

comfort?

How does the application of each natural building materials affect

temperature and humidity?

Materiality

Natural Building Materials: - Timber-concrete

-rammed earth

Humidity

BelumRainforest

Resort

Thermal comfort

Temperature

Concept Mapping :

Issues and objectives :

Issues :

- to identify the effect of the natural building materials in terms of

achieving thermal comfort

- to find out how natural building materials affect temperature and

humidity

Objectives :

- importance of natural building materials in achieving thermal comfort

- Understanding of each natural building materials properties in term to

help to achieve natural building materials

Belum Rainforest Resort

Background literature : Belum Rainforest resort is located on Malaysia,

which is Tropical country that have a high percentage of humid and hot

temperature.

Why is worth to research ?

Recycling the natural building materials as part of design can

gave a lot of advantages such as can decrease the construction cost

and also saving energy. By using natural building materials the building

can give comfortable feeling to the user or people.

Timber

Properties of Timber :

Timber (Phase 1)

Phase 1 ( Office timber facade )

Phase 1 ( Almost 75% of the facade

cover with timber)

Phase 1 ( In between pathway )

Timber ( Phase 2 )

Phase 2 (Timber facade, flooring

and roofing)

Phase 2 ( In between pathway )

CONCRETE

Properties of Concrete :

Concrete

Phase 2

(Mostly construct or built with “Concrete”)

RAMMED EARTH

Properties of Rammed Earth :

RAMMED EARTH

Phase 2 ( Rammed Earth as a sun blockage to absorb thermal )

Rammed Earth

Rammed Earth

RAMMED EARTH

Phase 2 (Timber facade, flooring

and roofing)

Phase 2 ( In between pathway )

Rammed Earth

Conclusion :

Natural building materials play an important role in achieving thermal

comfort nowadays. With using natural building materials there are many

advantages gained like for example saving energy, bring comfort to the

people and etc.