Thus, an organism must be maintained at a constant temperature, to avoid cooling or heating, with

This purpose has residual heat evacuation mechanisms that are normal heat exchange mechanisms.

They are the following:

While the first three forms of transmission refer to sensible heat, evaporation refers to latent heat.

In order for the internal temperature of the human body to remain constant, the thermal balance that includes heat contributions and losses by convection, conduction, radiation and evaporation must remain constant.

The feeling of hygrothermal comfort does not depend solely on the air temperature.

Hygrothermal comfort depends on:.

As seen, hygrothermal comfort is not defined only by a fixed temperature and relative humidity. The fact that an indoor environment has an air conditioning system, with the thermostat set at 23 °C and 50% relative humidity, does not mean that hygrothermal comfort is required because it also depends on other parameters, such as the metabolic rate and the clothing (coat) index.

Thus, since the beginning of the century, various authors have been developing comfort models, either to respond with thermomechanical means or through natural means. In the first case, the comfort nomograms of the United States Association of Engineers were developed to advance alongside the air conditioning systems created by Carrier and in the second to maintain comfort with the design of the building and its envelope through passive design techniques.

The models most accepted by the community of bioclimatic architects and engineers are those developed by the Olgyay brothers and Baruch Givoni.

Thus, an organism must be maintained at a constant temperature, to avoid cooling or heating, with

This purpose has residual heat evacuation mechanisms that are normal heat exchange mechanisms.

They are the following:

While the first three forms of transmission refer to sensible heat, evaporation refers to latent heat.

In order for the internal temperature of the human body to remain constant, the thermal balance that includes heat contributions and losses by convection, conduction, radiation and evaporation must remain constant.

The feeling of hygrothermal comfort does not depend solely on the air temperature.

Hygrothermal comfort depends on:.

As seen, hygrothermal comfort is not defined only by a fixed temperature and relative humidity. The fact that an indoor environment has an air conditioning system, with the thermostat set at 23 °C and 50% relative humidity, does not mean that hygrothermal comfort is required because it also depends on other parameters, such as the metabolic rate and the clothing (coat) index.

Thus, since the beginning of the century, various authors have been developing comfort models, either to respond with thermomechanical means or through natural means. In the first case, the comfort nomograms of the United States Association of Engineers were developed to advance alongside the air conditioning systems created by Carrier and in the second to maintain comfort with the design of the building and its envelope through passive design techniques.

The models most accepted by the community of bioclimatic architects and engineers are those developed by the Olgyay brothers and Baruch Givoni.