Indoor Climatic conditions and Lifestyle in Mgwashi Ward, Lushoto Distict In Tanzania

摘要

Passive solar energy has been accommodateed in traditional house construction in various parts of arrica. However, in recent years people have started to apply alien buildng styles because of external influences. Unfortunately some of the new building styles have failed to achieve what indigenous styles have attained in many years. This presentation has revealed than in Tanzania the fields of passive solar energy andenergy conseration in buildings are very little explotied. The paper then discusses the pattern of living and tradtional house costruction in Tanzania, a case study of mgwasi=hi ward. Furthermore, it highlights the climatic and socio-economic status ofhe area. It goes on to describe the living style of people as influnced by climatic Conditions. Inside the house, given the cold coditions out-door, thehouse deisgn is such that sleeping, cooking and livestock are accommodated in the same building though in different rooms. The reusltant indoor conditions are a mixture of exhaled air from perople and lievstock, heat and smoke from cooking acitvities and space heating by fuelwood, a predominant energy source in the area. Windows are very small for heat conservation reasons, as a result, everntilatio is inadequate, thus creating facourable ocnditios for transmission of ariborne diseases. The paper inally give recommendatios to improve the existing situation particularly in the study area and Tanzania in genral. Promotion utilisation of passive solar energy in building is emphasisec.