As natural ventilation is increasingly considered as a design strategy, how do we ensure it will provide an energy-efficient and comfortable environment?
AIRLIT studio recently partnered with Sasaki and SimScale to evaluate the performance of the natural ventilation system in University of Lima’s New Library using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
We ran several iterations of interior and exterior flow simulations, both under wind- and buoyancy-driven conditions to determine temperature and velocity profiles in the naturally ventilated spaces.
Findings showed that natural ventilation can keep occupants comfortable up to 60% of the year. Furthermore, by keeping the windows open at night to cool down the thermal mass of the building, passive cooling hours can be increased to 80% of the year.
Check out the full article on SimScale’s site to see how we leveraged CFD to help Sasaki improve the performance of their building: AIRLIT studio Studies Natural Ventilation in Library Building
