Thermal and wind environment of Korean traditional house with Korean hanged door: field measurements and simulation

This paper deals with the field measurements and simulation on thermal and wind environment of traditional houses in Korea. Measurements were carried out on Korean traditional house with a Ondol (stone floor), Maru (Daecheong ; wooden floor), Bunhab(hanged door) in summer. Ondol rooms are recognized that those are suitable room for winter. And the Maru is recognized that it is the suitable space for summer. But according to the result of field measuring, we found Ondol rooms were also comfortable rooms for summer. The opened Ondol room were similar to the Maru’s environment. Therefore the most comfortable place is the opened Ondol room because of the temperature of the floor and the wind from the Maru in this survey, we find that the Korean traditional house is comfortable without air conditioners in summer be hanging doors. And when we use air conditioners we waste extra energy. We wonder that we should study from the Korean traditional house which not waste energy