DISCONFORT LUMÍNICO Y TÉRMICO GENERADO POR LA PROGRAMACIÓN DE LAS CLASES EN LA UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA, SEDE MEDELLÍN

Abstract

Thermal and visual comfort in classrooms have a significant effect on the academic performance of the students, for this reason this research quantifies the discomfort experienced by the students enlisted in the two academic periods of 2018 at the National University of Colombia; For this, three databases were crossed that allowed to cross both administrative and physical information with simulations of light performance and thermal behavior of the classrooms, hypothesizing that, with a redistribution of classes, there would be improvement of habitability and learning conditions, without generating changes in the physical infrastructure. The results obtained show that the hours of discomfort suffered were experienced by 60% of the total number of students who study in the classrooms evaluated, which in turn show that between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. there was optimal comfort conditions in the classrooms, and that the highest discomfort range is between 12:00 pm and 5:00 pm. This tendency allows to consider a programmatic redistribution of the classes that takes advantage of the comfort range of the classrooms.