A contemporary house located within a dense area of Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh was selected to evaluate
its thermal performance. The study was based on the field measurements conducted during selected days in the summer
period. The field survey was conducted using one set of thermal data logger installed in the selected house to record the
air temperature and relative humidity of both indoor and outdoor spaces. The research result concluded that the
contemporary house experienced much higher temperature during night and early morning. The indoor air temperature
during the daytime was equal to the outdoor or sometime higher illustrating that it was overheating. On the other hand,
previous study on traditional house within the same area showed that indoor air temperature was lower than outdoor air
temperature, something that the contemporary house failed to achieve.