Measurement of the Thermal Environment in Transitional Settlements with High Building Density after 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in China PDF

After 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China, a large amount of transitional settlements with high building density had emerged in the earthquake-stricken area. These transitional settlements all consisted of low-energy transitional buildings: prefab houses. In order to make clear the indoor and outdoor physical environments in the settlements, we measured the wind velocity and air temperature in Happy Homeland, which was a typical post-disaster transitional settlement. The field measurements' results showed as followed: (1) the indoor thermal environment in summer was worse than that in winter, (2) the wind velocity inside settlement was much lower than that outside settlement, (3) a micro-scale heat island effect further deteriorated both the summer outdoor and indoor thermal environment.