Rural houses with appropriate strategies in northwest China: a practice of ecological houses in Ningxia Province

Abstract

The severe problem of rural vernacular houses in northwest china is low thermal comfortableness with high consumption of energy in winter. Under such circumstance, the appropriate technologies that create comfortable living environment under the inclement local weather by low cost should be encouraged. In Ningxia Province, Jianfuqiao village, the ecological technologies are presented. By comparing with traditional buildings, the testing and thermal environment analysis verified the effectiveness of the passive used solar technologies.

Keywords

rural houses / ecological technology / thermal environment / northwest China

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Acknowledgements

This research was funded by the Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50921005/E0803) and Key Technology R&D Program in the 11th Five-Year Plan of China (2006BAJ04A18).

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