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Flexing wind: aerodynamic study of architectural windbreak

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posted on 2024-10-31, 17:21 authored by Rafael Andres Moya Castro, Flora SalimFlora Salim, Mani Williams, Kamil Sharaidin
The aims of the Flexing Wind project, investigated in an intensive cross-disciplinary course, were twofold. First was to learn about aerodynamic phenomena around buildings. Second was to explore ways to observe, measure, and control the negative effects of wind around specific pedestrian areas, tram stops, and public sites in Melbourne City. Using tools such as a weather station to collect data and CFD software to simulate aerodynamic phenomena students could study the wind conditions in one of the windiest areas in the Melbourne downtown. Various do-it-yourself tools such as mini wind tunnels, handheld probes and sensors were used to evaluate the performance of potential design options, which lead to prototyping full scale adaptive architectural windbreaks.

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Start page

69

End page

78

Total pages

10

Outlet

Proceedings of the 31st eCAADe Conference: Volume 2

Editors

Rudi Stouffs, Sevil Sariyildiz

Name of conference

31st eCAADe Conference

Publisher

Delft University of Technology

Place published

The Netherlands

Start date

2013-09-18

End date

2013-09-20

Language

English

Copyright

© 2013 The Authors

Former Identifier

2006042323

Esploro creation date

2020-06-22

Fedora creation date

2014-01-13

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