Impacts of Air-drying Shelter on Indoor Thermal Environment in Turfan☆

Abstract In Turfan, with a long hot summer, local solar radiation was very strong, air-drying shelter which was closely integrated with local culture and production was a common local architectural form. In this paper, a typical apartment was selected to simulate indoor thermal and wet environment all the year around of two conditions of with and without drying room on the roofs, and indoor operating temperature and relative humidity in typical months and typical days were analyzed. As a result, in summer indoor operating temperature could be lower than those without drying rooms by a maximum reduction of 2.46°C, improving thermal and wet environment effectively, due to which human thermal comfort was better accordingly. However in winter because of drying room's sheltering of solar radiation, indoor operating temperature was slightly lower that without air-drying shelter on the roof, unfavorable to improve indoor thermal environment. Taking local long and hot summer into comprehensive consideration, local air-drying shelter was helpful for the improvement of indoor thermal environment throughout the year.