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Article

Typology of Latvian Churches and Preliminary Study on Indoor Air Temperature and Moisture Behavior

by
Martins Metals
*,
Arturs Palcikovskis
,
Anatolijs Borodinecs
and
Arturs Lesinskis
Department of Heat Engineering and Technology, Riga Technical University, Kipsalas Street 6, LV-1048 Riga, Latvia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Buildings 2022, 12(9), 1396; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12091396
Submission received: 12 August 2022 / Revised: 1 September 2022 / Accepted: 2 September 2022 / Published: 6 September 2022
(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
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Abstract

When dealing with the indoor microclimates of cultural and historical heritage cult buildings, it is important to know the types of these buildings by their spatial volumes and by the types of enclosing structures, and it is also important to understand the moisture transfer processes in these buildings, which would allow one to generate solutions on how to more effectively control the indoor microclimate. Due to the antiquity and specific load of these buildings, the existing standards are not applicable. This study summarizes 275 churches in Latvia, dividing them both according to five spatial volumes and according to the types of the materials used, which makes it possible to create potential air flows for all spatial volumes and to predict condensation risks in the future. Additionally, the results of temperature and humidity measurements in two different churches from one region of Latvia are given and the absolute humidity was calculated, and the data were analyzed depending on the outside air temperature. These measurements have yet to be followed up with the data of a full year.
Keywords: church typology; humidity church typology; humidity

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Metals, M.; Palcikovskis, A.; Borodinecs, A.; Lesinskis, A. Typology of Latvian Churches and Preliminary Study on Indoor Air Temperature and Moisture Behavior. Buildings 2022, 12, 1396. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12091396

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Metals M, Palcikovskis A, Borodinecs A, Lesinskis A. Typology of Latvian Churches and Preliminary Study on Indoor Air Temperature and Moisture Behavior. Buildings. 2022; 12(9):1396. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12091396

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Metals, Martins, Arturs Palcikovskis, Anatolijs Borodinecs, and Arturs Lesinskis. 2022. "Typology of Latvian Churches and Preliminary Study on Indoor Air Temperature and Moisture Behavior" Buildings 12, no. 9: 1396. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12091396

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Metals, M., Palcikovskis, A., Borodinecs, A., & Lesinskis, A. (2022). Typology of Latvian Churches and Preliminary Study on Indoor Air Temperature and Moisture Behavior. Buildings, 12(9), 1396. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12091396

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