Designing with the Wind: Climate-Derived Architecture

Description

This book explores wind-adaptive architectural design blending the parametric design with digital simulations and suggests a novel approach for specific, even extreme conditions, as the first step in creating architecture that can act in response to the nature around. The chapters propose an urban and architectural design that emerges from the specific wind microclimate of the design site and responds to the changes in the ambient wind conditions. The book looks closely at A) the interdisciplinary wind-driven design method for architects, engineers, and urbanists employing open-source software for CFD analysis and B) the tensegrity-membrane adaptive building façades. The main questions the authors try to answer are: How does the wind-driven methodology enhance the wind comfort around buildings? How can it contribute to the reduction of wind surface loads acting on buildings? Preface About This Book Contents About the Authors 1 Background 1.1 Extreme Environment 1.1.1 Definitions 1.1.2 Global Climate Change 1.1.3 Extreme Weather 1.1.4 Designing for Climate Change and Extreme Weather 1.1.5 Summary 1.2 The Wind 1.2.1 General Properties of Air 1.2.2 Wind Direction and Magnitude 1.2.3 The Eurocode 1.2.4 The Wind and the Built Environment 1.2.5 The Wind Loads 1.2.6 Summary 1.3 Algorithms-Aided Design and Simulations in Architecture 1.3.1 Definitions 1.3.2 Algorithms-Aided Design 1.3.3 CFD Simulations in Architectural Design 1.3.4 CFD Analysis 1.3.5 Summary 1.4 Adaptive Architectural and Structural Solutions 1.4.1 Adaptive Systems Principal Categorization 1.4.2 Tensegrity Structures 1.4.3 Summary References 2 Wind-Driven Design 2.1 Description of the Method 2.1.1 Steps of the Method 2.2 Wind-Driven Design in Stockholm’s Docks 2.2.1 Wind Data 2.2.2 Urbanism: CFD Analysis 2.2.3 Urbanism: Design 2.2.4 Parametric Design 2.2.5 CFD Wind Analysis Through Swift for Grasshopper References 3 Wind-Adaptive Building Envelope 3.1 Virtual Model 3.1.1 Real-Time Response in the Wind 3.2 Physical Model Experiments 3.3 Building Envelopes Application 3.3.1 The Full-Scale Wind-Adaptive Module 3.3.2 Wind Analysis of Basic-Shaped Buildings with the Adaptive Envelope 3.3.3 FlowBrane No. 3 with the Wind-Adaptive Envelope References 4 Conclusions 4.1 Contribution to Practice and Scientific Field 4.1.1 Interdisciplinary Wind-Driven Design Method 4.1.2 Wind-Adaptive Envelope 4.2 Challenges and Future Work 4.2.1 Interdisciplinary Wind-Driven Design Method 4.2.2 Wind-Adaptive Envelope