Determinación de la calidad del aire con la inclusión de vegetación en ambientes interiores de espacios educativos, y su inclusión arquitectónica

Abstract

The present degree work aim to find an ecological alternative, through the inclusion of indoor planting as inner gardens, to promote a system of air renovation and purification inside the educative spaces, places where the agglomeration and use ability, causes precariousness of the optimal environmental conditions for the development of the activities required in these spaces. By implementing vegetation, it is expected to reduce the amount of polluting gases (taking as reference the indoor carbon dioxide for this research), and also, to balance the interior temperature to avoid the use of air renewal by external infiltration. For its effect, a case study is implemented within the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Cuenca, where during periods of equal time and occupation, a typical classroom is controlled in two different conditions of equipment, that is, a before and after the inclusion of vegetation, each stage consisting of one week. The space is controlled by portable climatic stations, with terminals for the measurement of temperature, humidity and particles per million carbon dioxide. After a quantitative and qualitative analysis, it is possible to observe that by including the proposed vegetation, the concentration of pollutant inside the space is reduced, in turn, reducing the interior temperature, seeing as the only counterproductive result the increase of the interior humidity, being an important factor in the perception of conformity of the users of the experimental classroom.