Tiny Housing in Faiyum, Egypt
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According to “Data Bridge Market Research”, tiny houses are nowadays being implemented more often as it relates to the global tiny house market. The tiny-house trend, evolving expenses for living due to rising prices, as well as the increasing demand for inexpensive alternatives to housing, are all predicted to stimulate the growing popularity of the worldwide tiny housing market. Among the countries included in the analysis on the global tiny house market is Egypt, which demonstrates a significant rise in demand for projects that include these tiny housing from 2022 to 2029. The moment has arrived for humanity to actively react to decrease the pressure that the rising population is placing on the planet's natural resources and shift to an ecologically sustainable lifestyle by identifying housing needs and how people choose to live. Tiny housing has grown so popular recently that many individuals all around the world are now being encouraged to downsize and live simple with only the essentials, specifically their living footprint. This could be extremely developed utilizing sustainable materials that are energy efficient, acting as an insulation factor, offering an optimum thermal comfort, allowing for a very minimal expense, revealing it to be a cost-effective solution and enhancing the beneficial impact on the environment. The aim of this paper is to outline the changeover from an unsustainable, unfriendly environment to one that is highly sustainable and efficient, maintainable, and economical through applying energy efficient thermal insulation materials achieving thermal comfort. The concept “Tiny Housing”, its aspects, and principles related to design, sustainability, and energy efficiency will be covered in this research, which will also conduct a qualitative literature review concluding design principles and parameters to be applied into any design stage. Furthermore, it will focus on environmentally friendly building materials gathered from various research papers as well as RIBA projects, acting as an insulation factor that will be illustrated through a framework tabular design. Using a simulation tool named "Ecotect," different thermal insulation materials will be examined and tested on a 40 square meter tiny house, especially wall insulation, to determine which material has the highest energy efficiency to be applied on a tiny house to reduce energy consumptions. It thus leads to the conclusion that there isn't one appropriate answer with regard to insulation materials since there are numerous up to date, innovative eco-friendly materials available today. However, this paper will assist in determining and narrowing down to the most efficient thermal insulative material among the ones selected, so that it can be suggested as a functional, cost-effective and energy-saving solution.
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Riba Website International Awards for Riba Projects Hand written calculations for thermal heat gain, loss and effectiveness All References were gathered from Google scholar