Indoor Air and Thermal Comfort 2

[C-11-4] Behavioral adaptations for improving thermal comfort in residential buildings in hot-humid climate - a case study of Kharagpur, India

*Subhagata Mukhopadhyay¹, Nikhil Kumar⁵, Kazuma Kawajiri⁵, Tetsu Kubota⁵, Shankha Pratim Bhattacharya², Takahashi Asawa³, Yasuto Nakano⁴ (1. Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University (Japan), 2. Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of technology, Kharagpur (India), 3. Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), 4. Kwansei Gakuin University (Japan), 5. Hiroshima University (Japan))

Keywords:Passive Design, Hot-humid Climate, Thermal Comfort