One story single family house

This test case deals with a one floor single family house.

1. Architecture

The studied building is composed of five rooms (a living room, 3 bedrooms and a bathroom?) for a gross floor area of around \(92 m^2\) and includes non-convertible attics (see Figure 1).

Figure 1. 2D plan (a), and 3D view (b) of the studied building.

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a. 2D plan

CbBaud tiltedroof b. 3D view

The house is a wood frame building. Its walls composition is as shown in Table 1. For the envelope walls, the material layers are listed from inside to outside.

Table 1. Composition and thermal properties of the building walls.

Material

Thickness [m]

Conductivity \([\text{W}.\text{m}^{-1}.\text{K}^{-1}\)]

Density \([\text{kg}.\text{m}^{-3}\)]

Capacity \([\text{J}.\text{kg}^{-1}.\text{K}^{-1}\)]

Envelope walls

Plasterboard

0.013

0.25

900

1200

Cellulose

0.14

0.23

800

2160

OSB

0.012

0.15

600

1300

EPS

0.06

0.05

10

1450

roughcast

0.005

1.1

1950

1650

Partition walls

Plasterboard

0.015

0.25

900

1200

Insulation

0.07

0.035

1440

1400

Plasterboard

0.015

0.25

900

1200

Floor

Reinforced concrete

1.5

2300

2400

Ceiling

BA13

0.013

0.25

900

1200

OSB

0.26

0.15

600

1300

The total glazed area of the house is around $25 m^2$, spread on its four facades as shown in Table 2.

Table 2. Repartition of the glazed construction over the building envelope.

Glazed construction

Orientation

Area \([\text{m}^2\)]

Window 1

South

2.45

Window 2

East

2.45

Window 3

North

0.83

Window 4

North

2.45

Window 5

West

1.03

Bay window 1

South

7.30

Bay window 2

South

6.33

Door window 1

East

2.07

2. Flat roof

In this example, we limit our study to the first floor and model the tilted roof as a flat one (see Figure 2). Its roof-to-roof height is \(2.5 m^2\).

This example is only for the validation of the developed toolchain. We are aware that the geometry simplification applied to the roof may lead to important discrepancies in the simulation results.
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Figure 1. 3D view of the studied building modeled where the tilted roof is replaced by a flat one.

3. Sloped roof

Not yet implemented.