PASSIVE BUILDING DESIGN: OPENINGS APPROACH FOR NATURAL VENTILATION TO CONTROL INDOORS ENVIRONMENT.

This study was inspired by a contemporary trend in architecture, which is the interest of passive and low energy applications in buildings. Where a natural cross ventilation can be a promising passive solution for summer thermal comfort in buildings especially in hot country like Libya. It takes advantage of the night temperature of the air to cool the walls at the buildings, although this technique is well-known in hot climate, its use in new buildings requires being able to predict the quantity of heat that can be dissipated. There is indeed a lack of experimental and research data either to build design rules for engineers or to validate numerical code dedicated to the design. This paper concentrates on the area of cross ventilation and Highlights the opportunity of using this passive low energy cooling method here in Libya. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]