Gratia, Elisabeth
[UCL]
De Herde, André
[UCL]
Double-skin facades are assuming an ever-greater importance in modem building practice. There is an increasing demand for higher quality office buildings. Occupants and developers of office buildings ask for a healthy and stimulating working environment.
Double-skin facades are appropriate when buildings are subject to great external noise and wind loads. A further area of application is in rehabilitation work, when existing facades cannot be renewed, or where this is not desirable. Double-skin facades have a special aesthetic of their own, and this can be exploited architecturally to great advantage.
However, there are still relatively few buildings in which double-skin facades have actually been realized, and there is still too little experience of their behavior in operation.
In this matter, we choose to study the natural ventilation in multi-storey double-skin facades. Simulations where realized with TAS software on a building proposed in the frame of the subtask A of the Task 27 (performance of solar facade components) of the International Energy Agency, Solar Heating and Cooling Program.
We decide to study a sunny summer day; and we analyze the double-skin facade behavior for various conditions: impact of the double-skin orientation and impact of the wind orientation and the degree of wind protection. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Bibliographic reference |
Gratia, Elisabeth ; De Herde, André. Natural ventilation in a double-skin facade. In: Energy and Buildings, Vol. 36, no. 2, p. 137-146 (2004) |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/40357 |