Application of Indoor Landscape with Iresineherbstiihook and Brassicajunceaplants on Tropical House Thermal Environment Performance as Passive Cooling Strategy

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Living organisms, in this case the plant used as a tool to solve the problem of the microclimate in buildings.This paper aims to investigate the thermal effects to provide reference for plant selection in indoor landscape. Temperature and relative humidity reduction experiments are carried out on two types of plants (iresineherbstiihook and brassicajuncea) in Malang, Indonesia. The methodology was developed and applied using field measurement on indoor and outdoor. In increasing thermal environment, its impact, higher levels of vertical garden gap (distance from house facade) produced the indoor air temperature reduction. Further, several modifications were found to produce a potential building cooling load reduction of up to 5°C by the use iresineherbstiihook (bayam merah). In fact, the optimum improvement of both outdoor and indoor environment was influenced by two major vertical garden factors, namely, larger vertical garden gap and type of vegetable plant. Thus, it is suggested that appropriate guidelines, influencing implementation of these improvements could be implemented in order to increase thermal environment in hot humid climate.