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Ledeg Traineesrsquo Hostel Leh

This document summarizes a trainees' hostel building in Leh, India designed to utilize passive solar techniques. The two-story building uses local materials like mud bricks and timber framing. It is oriented south with most rooms and communal spaces having large south-facing windows to maximize solar gain. Passive features include a solar room, Trombe walls, and a solar hot water system. Thermal evaluations found the building remained above freezing in winter and was warm but not overheated in summer, demonstrating the effectiveness of the passive solar design.

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Ledeg Traineesrsquo Hostel Leh

This document summarizes a trainees' hostel building in Leh, India designed to utilize passive solar techniques. The two-story building uses local materials like mud bricks and timber framing. It is oriented south with most rooms and communal spaces having large south-facing windows to maximize solar gain. Passive features include a solar room, Trombe walls, and a solar hot water system. Thermal evaluations found the building remained above freezing in winter and was warm but not overheated in summer, demonstrating the effectiveness of the passive solar design.

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BUILDING:

VEINESH PRATIK
BARCH/15007/12
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MY BUILDING:
LEDeG Trainees’ Hostel, Leh

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LEDeG Trainees’ Hostel, Leh

 Architect : Sanjay Prakash


Sanjay Prakash and Associates
Climate : Cold and Sunny
Consultants : In-house
Project Period: 1994-1996
Size : 300m² Covered area in small
Campus
Client/Owner : Ladakh Ecological Development
Group
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General Description
• LEDeG (Ladakh Ecological Development
Group) is a well known non government
organization operating out of various centres in
Ladakh. This project is located in LEDeG’s
Chana’pa Centre, in Leh.
• Leh’s characteristically cold and sunny climate
(temperature is below 30  ͦ with over 320 sunny
days in a year) makes it a testing ground for
solar technologies despite its small population.
• It provides accommodation for 24 persons and
is double storey with 12 double Bed Room, and
ancillary spaces. It is in north part of campus
and is slightly south-facing slope.
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SITE VIEW

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CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES

• Traditional techniques have been modified


and adapted for use in the building. The load-
bearing walls of the ground floor are made in
rubble masonry with mud mortar.
• The upper floor uses load-bearing sun-dried
mud bricks (adobe) in mud mortar. Partition
walls are also executed in adobe.

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• The intermediate floors and roofs are
timber-framed, with poplar wood joists
covered by twigs, grass, and earth. In
order to combat a rising local fear of
increasing leakages in such construction,
a small slope has been given to the flat
roof so as not to create a sag in the
middle.

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DESIGN FEATURES

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PASSIVE SOLAR DESIGN
SOUTH ORIENTATION
• The building is oriented south, every habitable
room has a liberal south exposure. Only corridors,
toilets and staircase are without direct south
exposure.
• The 12 bedrooms and the laundry and study room
all have large south exposure for solar heat gain
with almost no overhangs.
SOALRIUM
•  At the centre of building is a south approached air
lock entrance leading to the study room. Above this
is another study room. Either of these can be
occasionally used as a dining space. Since these
spaces are used in the day only, they are heated by
south glazing tilted at 60 to the horizontal.
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• The directly gained solar heat is stored in the mass
of the building and the warmth is retained for few
year after sundown.

TROMBE WALL
• The bedroom have been provided with a mix of
windows and glazed walls. Some of these are the
classical Trombe wall type design with vents for
convective loop formation.
• Others are provided without vents, especially as
heat is not required in the bedrooms until early in
the evening. These mass walls are made of
RUBBLE (ground floor) and ADOBE (first floor).

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TROMBE WALL

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INSULATION AND MASS
• The thick earth in wall and roof provides insulation
and mass.
ABSORBING FINISH
• The south wall are painted black to provide better
heating. This colour along with maroon, had been
used to embellish all openings. Local traditions
have been respected while providing for better
energy efficiency.
WEATHER STRIPPING
 All opening have cork based weather strips at the
edges to seal them tight.
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RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEM
SOLAR HOT WATER
•  A flat plate thermosiphonic collector system is
provided on the roof of the building. At a 60 tilt, it
provides year round hot water.
FUTURE PROVISION FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC
CHARGING
• It is planned to fit the building with photovoltaic cell
to provide most of the night lighting

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INTERIOR

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ELEVATION

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SUMMARY OF THERMAL EVALUATION
DURING WINTER

 All the rooms remained above 0  ͦc at all times in


 january, even when the temperature outside fell to  –
17  ͦ c.
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REMARKS:

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SUMMARY OF THERMAL
EVALUATION
DURING SUMMER

Summer performance of the passive heating technologies


is also important, especially With regard to overheating
during the day. The data shows that the rooms are quite
warm during the summer.
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REMARKS

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THANK YOU

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