A review of spatial comfort in shophouse in humid tropics

Shophouse is the most building type built along the road with various commercial functions. Due to the high rate of land price and the high percentage of building basic coefficient, therefore the shophouse is commonly built in maximum. This characteristic creates a lack of apertures through the buildings due to being trapped by surrounding shophouses. Shophouses are also built in heavyweight construction, i.e., concrete and brickwork. Due to such limitations, this study aims at assessing the spatial comfort of the shophouse, i.e., thermal and lighting. It is quite visible that quality. This study was carried out through the field measurement. Taking Banda Aceh climate as the case study in humid tropics, this study found that the high inside air temperature mostly runs throughout the upper floor during the day, and the ground floor during the night; and the small value of daylight occurs almost on the entire rooms during the day. This paper further proposes the possibility to improve the comfort quality in the shophouse which is conducted through the literature survey.