Climate performance and sustainable passive systems analysis of the hotel “Ciudad de Catamayo” in downtown Catamayo

Abstract

Nowadays, architectural projects that include a
sustainable approach by understanding the climatic
conditions of the site, guarantee a better thermal
comfort performance to its users. In addition, there is a
growing demand from users and tourists for sustainable
projects whose carbon footprint is the smallest possible
to protect the environment in compliance with the UN’s
2030 sustainable agenda. Due to the tourist potential
of Catamayo and the climatic characteristics that are
presented, this academic article evaluates the climatic
conditions of the site, and the behavior of an existing
building in Catamayo, on which recommendations
are generated to improve the comfort zone inside
the building based on sustainable passive strategies.
This includes the climatic analysis of the site using
the psychometric chart, wind rose and stereological
chart to know its climatic variation and focus the data

obtained in the analysis on the existing building of the
hotel “Ciudad de Catamayo”. In fact, the building faces
long hours of solar exposure during the day, which
conditions to generate a high energy consumption
to maintain an adequate internal temperature for its
guests. Therefore, based on the data from the analysis
and several simulations of solar and wind paths, passive
strategies are established to be implemented that allow
the building to reduce solar radiation gain and include
natural ventilation to reduce energy consumption and
improve the internal comfort zone of the hotel.