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• Main Author: NOVIANTHI PRATIWI (NIM : 25211001), SRI
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/24361
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The high level energy consumption of buildings is considered to be one of the causes of high CO2 emissions into the environment. The energy used in building life cycles to produce and maintain the building materials or components is known as embodied energy. Currently, the factors that influenced the embodied energy in buildings are still given very less attention in the process of building design, especially in the design of the part that has large proportion the building, i.e. the wall. With the government's agenda to develop low-cost apartment with green concept and energy efficient, the energy cycle of embodied energy of the building needs to be taken into consideration in the design planning. <br /> <br /> This study investigated the relationship and influence of the design aspects of vertical housing for low-cost apartment, including form, orientation, openings, materials, and the volume of material, to the energy embodied of the wall. The study was conducted by analyzing the evaluation of embodied energy calculations on low-cost apartment selected as the representatives of three major forms of low-cost apartment built in Indonesia, which includes the form of Tower, Single-loaded Corridor and Semi Double-loaded Corridor in their designs. <br /> <br /> Based on the results, low-cost apartments with the highest ratio of the outer wall, the inner wall ratio, and wall openings tend to have higher total embodied energy. Low-cost apartment with Single-loaded Corridor with the highest ratio of walls and openings had the highest embodied energy, followed by the Tower-type low cost apartment, and the lowest among all us the apartment with Semi Double-loaded Corridor type. To optimize the overall energy consumption in the study of low-cost apartment embodied energy of the wall, a further research can be carried out by examining the operational aspects of the energy used during the life cycle of the low-cost apartment.