Behaviors, Needs, Lifestyles of Residents in Townhouse and Their Electrical Consumption Ratio

Abstract

This paper presents a fundamental research aimed to collect basic data on the aspect ofresidential behavior on the use of electrical energy for ventilate and air-conditioned the spaces,physical preference and functional needs. Typically, researchers rarely collect the social sciencedata. Most researches aimed on applied research and scientific data. The needs of residents, theirbehaviors and lifestyles are not pin pointed. Therefore, there is no guideline for design concept ofpublic housing. Sampling groups of this research are the townhouse communities located in outerBangkok and neighboring towns, Samutsakorn and Nonthaburi. One of the remarkable result fromthis research is the user behavior that can be used in the future townhouse design to suite the usersneeds. But the result from this research cannot be used as the permanent reference in term ofcomfort and discomfort information including the amount of unnecessary energy consumption inthe building. Continuous researches are necessary and should be conducted in order to obtain theconclusive results which can be used as the permanent reference in the future design of townhouse.