DESIGN PARAMETERS OF A NON-AIR-CONDITIONED CINEMA HALL FOR THERMAL COMFORT UNDER ARID-ZONE CLIMATIC CONDITIONS

In this communication, a design of a cinema hall suitable for climatic conditions in an arid zone has been presented. The various cooling te chniques, namely evaporative cooling, wind tower, ventilation/infiltra tion and natural cooling, have been incorporated in the design to achi eve thermal comfort during the period of operation. The design paramet ers have been optimized on the basis of numerical computations after e stablishing an energy balance for each component of a cinema hall. It is observed that cooling treatment, i.e., a wind tower with a cooling pool on the roof provides reasonable thermal comfort inside the enclos ure.