Sample ALE Questions - Tropical Design & Green Architecture Part 4

sample board exam questions for ALE Day 1 AM session on Tropical Design, Green Architecture, and Sustainable Design

1. To block excessive sunlight, what "new material" is used for the windows?

2. In view of day lighting, room accommodation, corridors and entrances should orient towards which direction?

3. For a low-budget house with concerns for energy savings, what type of system can possibly minimize power consumption of the building? 

4. What window is best to use in a market building to maintain a tropical concept?

5. How should you best design the building to maximize the natural air of the site?

6. For high rise office building, what would you use for its facade to minimize heat?

7. Why is LED preferred over other types of lamps?

8. What's the best thing to provide to serve as natural buffer on the SW orientation?

9. On a narrow corridor, what is the best lighting fixture for general lighting to be installed to go with the overall design and save on energy consumption regardless of cost?

10. In terms of material production, which of the following flooring materials is considered to have the lowest carbon footprint?

11. Where does the “easterlies” come from?

12. Which part would you normally treat with sun baffles?

13. Where will you locate trees as buffers from the "Amihan" wind?

14. In terms of material production, which of the following flooring materials is considered to have the lowest carbon footprint?

15. Where will you locate Trees as buffers from the "Habagat" wind?

16. How could natural light and ventilation be achieved in terms of layout and design?

17. If a client prefers a bedroom where the interior wouldn't be too hot, where would you not locate the master's bedroom?

18. Flow of heat through a material by transfer from warmer to cooler molecules in contact with each other.

19. Wind speed increases rapidly as the percentage opening area in wall increases from 0 to ___%.

20. Rate of heat transfer that occurs through a unit thickness of material for a unit area subjected to a unit difference in temperature.

21. As a rough guide, the wind shadow will be ___ times the height of the building including the pitched roof.

22. Wind speed ___ with the increase in height above the ground.

23. The tendency of air or gas in a shaft or other vertical space to rise when heated, creating a draft that draws in cooler air or gas from below.

24. Transfer of heat from one place to another by the flow of molecules from one place to another

25. Measured by a pyranometer, on an unobstructed horizontal surface and recorded either as the continuously varying irradiance (W/m2), or through an electronic integrator as irradiance over the hour of the day.

26. This design variable refers to the size, position and orientation of windows; window glass materials: external and internal shading devices.

27. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

28. The general climate is influenced by these three factors:

i. Diurnal temperature

ii. Topography

iii. Movement of air masses

iv. Vegetation

v. Moisture-bearing clouds

vi. Nature of the environment on local or regional scale

29. Overheating is not as great as in other areas, but it is aggravated by very high humidity, restricting the evaporation potential. The diurnal temperature variation is small.

30. Range under which most people feel comfortable

ANSWERS HERE:

A. Rationale and Description

1. Understanding of the theories and principles of tropical architectural programming, space planning, architectural planning and design and of the architectural program/ plan/ design process;

B.  Terminal Competencies for LEA Candidates

1. Ability to effectively address climate, orientation and building environment/ setting considerations in the architectural programming, planning and design process.

2. Ability to employ different processes and instruments that shall result in a climate-/ setting-responsive architectural program, space plan and architectural plan and design;

3. Ability to apply different concepts, theories and principles of tropical architectural programming, planning and design as these apply to different architectural planning and design problems; and

C. Scope 

1. Tropical Architecture - Architectural Programming, Planning and Design with Climate

a. Climatic Design : elements, factors, concepts, analysis and application for comfort;

b. Theories and Principles of Tropical Architectural Programming/ Planning/ Design;

c. Influences and elements of Tropical Architec¬ture; and

d. Specific examples of Tropical Architecture.

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