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    This document discusses the relevance of courtyards in contemporary educational buildings. It begins by defining courtyards and exploring their historical use. Courtyards provide benefits like air, light, and privacy. The document aims to understand the importance of courtyards in educational buildings and establish design parameters. It will study courtyard history, ideal proportions, microclimates with and without courtyards using digital tools. The research questions if courtyards still solve functions like enhancing space quality and efficiency in today's context. It will analyze courtyard nature, size, scale, and shape through case studies to frame design guidelines for educational buildings in Tamil Nadu.

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    This document discusses the relevance of courtyards in contemporary educational buildings. It begins by defining courtyards and exploring their historical use. Courtyards provide benefits like air, light, and privacy. The document aims to understand the importance of courtyards in educational buildings and establish design parameters. It will study courtyard history, ideal proportions, microclimates with and without courtyards using digital tools. The research questions if courtyards still solve functions like enhancing space quality and efficiency in today's context. It will analyze courtyard nature, size, scale, and shape through case studies to frame design guidelines for educational buildings in Tamil Nadu.

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    This document discusses the relevance of courtyards in contemporary educational buildings. It begins by defining courtyards and exploring their historical use. Courtyards provide benefits like air, light, and privacy. The document aims to understand the importance of courtyards in educational buildings and establish design parameters. It will study courtyard history, ideal proportions, microclimates with and without courtyards using digital tools. The research questions if courtyards still solve functions like enhancing space quality and efficiency in today's context. It will analyze courtyard nature, size, scale, and shape through case studies to frame design guidelines for educational buildings in Tamil Nadu.

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    This document discusses the relevance of courtyards in contemporary educational buildings. It begins by defining courtyards and exploring their historical use. Courtyards provide benefits like air, light, and privacy. The document aims to understand the importance of courtyards in educational buildings and establish design parameters. It will study courtyard history, ideal proportions, microclimates with and without courtyards using digital tools. The research questions if courtyards still solve functions like enhancing space quality and efficiency in today's context. It will analyze courtyard nature, size, scale, and shape through case studies to frame design guidelines for educational buildings in Tamil Nadu.

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    RELEVANCE OF COURTYARD IN CONTEMPORARY

    EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS

    INTRODUCTION:

    Courtyard:

    Courtyards are private open spaces surrounded by walls or any defining element
    have been in use in buildings for almost as long as people started living in
    constructed dwellings.

    “An unroofed area that completely or partially enclosed by walls or


    buildings” - (Book :Reynolds, J. (2002). Courtyards: aesthetic, social, and thermal
    delight: Wiley)

    Courtyard are more prevalent in temperate climates, as an open central court can
    be an important aid to cooling the building in warm weather. However,
    courtyard structure has been found in harsher climates as well for centuries. The
    comforts offered by a courtyard—air, light, privacy are properties nearly
    universally accepted.

    Aim:

    To understand importance of courtyard and establish a parameter for


    courtyard which is appropriate to educational building.

    Objectives:

    1. To study the history and evolution of courtyards.


    2. To understand the ideal proportion as relate to function.
    3. Compare and analyse the micro climate condition of education space
    with courtyard and without courtyard.
    4. To calculate the performance evalution of courtyard through digital
    tools.
    - Light
    - Ventilation

    Research question:

    Are courtyards still relevant in solving its function?

    Sub questions:

    1. How the courtyard enhances the quality of space?


    2. Are the courtyards efficient in today’s context?
    3. How to derive appropriate proportion of courtyard in educational
    building?
    Scope:
    To study, understand and analyse the nature, size, scale shape of courtyard
    from literature study and to do comparative analysis of the present courtyard
    through case studies with help of digital tool and frame guidelines and
    parameters of an appropriate courtyard in terms of size, proportion and uses.

    Limitation:
    Study will focus on relevance of courtyard in educational buildings of Tamil
    nadu.

    Reason for Educational Building:


    A considerable period of life is spent mostly in education building, thus the
    education environment designed with courtyards for better ventilation would be
    an ideal solution.
    “We learn from where we learn”
    Reference:
    1. Fatma Abass, Lokman Hakim Ismail and Mohmed Solla .,“A REVIEW
    OF COURTYARD HOUSE: HISTORY EVOLUTION FORMS,AND
    FUNCTIONS ” ; ISSN 1819-6608 VOL. 11, NO. 4, FEBRUARY 2016
    2. Gaurav Gangwar, “Environmental, Behavioural and Aesthetic aspects
    of Courtyard Design” ; Vol-2, Issue-9, 2016 ISSN: 2454-1362
    3. Paria saadatjoo, Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad, Shiva najaf khosravi,
    Nader kaveh,. “EFFECT OF COURTYARD PROPORTION ON
    NATURAL VENTILATION EFFICIENCY” ISSN: 2394-2827 Volume-
    3, Issue-5, Oct.-2016
    4. Taylor B, “The first line of defense: Passive design at an urbanscale, in
    Air conditioning and the low carbon cooling challenge”, Network for
    Comfort and Energy Use in Buildings (NCEUB): Cumberland Lodge,
    Windsor, UK (2008).
    5. Brown G.Z, Dekay M, “Sun, wind and light:Architectural design
    strategies”, 2nd ed. New York: Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
    (2001).
    6. Sustainable by passive architecture, using courtyards in non-domestic
    buildings Conference Article: The 2005 World Sustainable Building
    Conference, Tokyo, 27-29 September 2005 (SB05Tokyo)
    7. Geometry of building’s courtyards to favor natural ventilation:
    comparison between wind tunnel experiment and numerical simulation
    Conference Article: The 2005 World Sustainable Building Conference,
    Tokyo, 27-29 September 2005 (SB05Tokyo)
    8. B. Vedhajanani* and A. Lilly Rose“Contextual Comparison of Courtyard
    Houses in Tamil Nadu” Vol 9(5), DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2016/v9i5/87268,
    February 2016

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