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Arch 463
ECS
Midterm I
Fall 98

30 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Richard Meier’s version of green architecture features 
	A. effective shading devices
	B. on-site waste water treatment
	C. earth-integrated buildings
	D. all of the above

2. A truly green (sustainable) building should
	A. produce all its own power
	B. treat all its own waste water
	C. passively heat and cool itself
	D. all of the above

3. The standard comfort zone plotted on the bioclimatic chart assumes
	A. the person is exposed to the sun
	B. the person is engaged in vigorous physical activity
	C. the person is wearing a standard 3-piece business suit
	D. none of the above

4. The equation for thermal comfort insists that thermal equilibrium must be maintained. In order for this to happen
	A. temperatures must be constant
	B. a person must lose heat to the environment
	C. shivering and sweating must occur when it’s too cold 
	D. none of the above

5. Climatically appropriate responses to a hot-arid environment, found in vernacular architecture, include
	A. dense cities of attached courtyard houses
	B. buildings with wind catchers
	C. high mass buildings with small windows
	D. all of the above

6. The lessons learned from studying the climate-responsive strategies in vernacular architecture can be
A. directly applied to modern buildings
	B. used as conceptual models for design
	C. applied only when the temperature and relative humidity for both the ancient and modern site are exactly the same
	D. none of the above

7. An ancient building that has a compact form, a central hearth, and steeply sloped roof is typical of a
	A. hot and humid climate
	B. hot and arid climate
	C. temperate climate
	D. cold climate

8. Shading is a strategy that is important in 
	A. hot arid climates
	B. hot humid climates
	C. temperate climates
	D. all of the above

9. You can measure the surface temperature of wall with a 
	A. sling psychrometer
	B. anemometer
	C. spot pyranometer
	D. clinometer

10. If you wanted to site a house on a south-facing hillside in a hot humid climate, you would choose a position 
	A. on the summit
	B. on the brow of the hill
	C. at mid slope
	D. at the foot of the hill

11. The trees on a site affect
	A. wind flows
	B. the solar horizon 
	C. humidity
	D. all of the above

12. The Climate Consultant allows you to 
	A. printout useful information about your site’s climate
	B. access data about your site’s climate for further analysis
	C. design climatically-responsive buildings
	D. study vernacular architecture

13. For a site located at 45º SL, you would expect the prevailing winds to be from the 
	A. southwest
	B. northeast
	C. northwest
	D. southeast

14. You’d expect sites at the same longitude to have the same
	A. sun angles
	B. prevailing wind directions
	C. both of the above
	D. none of the above

15. Microclimatic thermal winds blow
	A. from sea to shore
	B. from country to city
	C. down valley
	D. all of the above

16. Compared to a site on the Washington coast, you should expect a site in Walla Walla, WA to be
	A. more temperate
	B. windier
	C. warmer in summer
	D. all of the above

17. Measuring temperatures and relative humidities at several points on a site during a single day allows you to  
	A. compare microclimatic effects
	B. make absolute judgements about climatic conditions on the site
	C. extrapolate the readings to an entire year
	D. make errors in judgement because these readings are irrelevant 

18. The balance point temperature for a thermal zone of a building defines
	A. the building’s outdoor temperature for thermal equilibrium at which neither heating or cooling required
	B. a constant temperature for comfort
	C. the point at which solar gains equal heat loss 
	D. all of the above

19. To calculate the balance point temperature you must know 
	A. window size and orientation
	B. skin elements’ thermal resistance
	C. internal gains from people, lights, and equipment
	D. all of the above

20. If you want to photograph the north façade of AAS with the sun striking the north wall’s surface, you could set up your camera
	A. at sunset on September 27
	B. at sunrise on September 19
	C. at sunrise on June 21
	D. at B and C above

21. If you wanted to design a southeast-facing horizontal overhang for optimal performance for an internally dominated load building, you could use 
	A. Mazria’s elevational sun chart
	B. LOF’s sun angle calculator
	C. Knowles’ solar envelope
	D. all of the above

22. A physical site/building model and a sun peg is useful for
	A. gaining overall knowledge of the site’s interaction with the sun
	B. predicting sun angles for complex geometries for any specific time of day/year
	C. evaluating the effectiveness of complex shading devices
	D. all of the above

23. A north-facing window is effectively shaded by
	A. a horizontal device
	B. a vertical device
	C. both of the above
	D. no shading device is needed

24. Early passive solar houses were described as built with “. . .the south side loftier to get the winter sun, and the north side lower to keep out the winter winds,” by
	A. Socrates
	B. Vitruvius
	C. Palladio
	D. Frank Lloyd Wright

25. In Christian Norberg-Schultz’ terminology, a double-hung window can act as a 
	A. connector
	B. switch
	C. barrier
	D. all of the above

26. In a climatically responsive design for a building in a temperate climate in the Northern Hemisphere, the south wall is most successfully dominated by
	A. barriers
	B. switches
	C. filters
	D. connectors

27. The architectural layer that evokes an architectural skin language of barriers is
	A. the sky layer
	B. the near-surface layer
	C. the surface layer
	D. the subsurface layer

28. A high-rise office building designed for a downtown Chicago site would
	A. save energy because of the city effect
	B. have a larger cooling load because of the city effect
	C. have a higher balance point temperature because of the city effect
	D. all of the above

29. The goal for passive solar heating is to
	A. maximize solar gain
	B. optimize solar gain
	C. minimize solar gain
	D. none of the above

30. A passive heating strategy that uses mass to reduce the peak temperature is
	A. direct gain
	B. water wall
	C. Trombe wall
	D. all of the above