LoginResearches into natural ventilation characteristics of courtyard buildings have been carried out extensively in climates very different from tropical climate. Nevertheless, courtyards have been incorporated for centuries in traditional shop houses and also adopted in many modern commercial buildings in tropical countries such as Singapore. This paper discuses a study to investigate the natural ventilation characteristics of courtyard buildings in Singapore. Four typical courtyard buildings are examined. They include a three-storey shop house, a five-storey detached office building, a six-storey shopping mall and an eighteen-storey office building. Each of the 1: 200 scaled models is investigated in wind tunnel to study the wind speed profile as well as the effect of various design parameters such as orientation of facade, location of courtyard etc. The measurements obtained from the wind tunnel are also compared with the actual full-scale measurements.
Natural ventilation characteristics of courtyard buildings in Singapore.
Year:
2000
Bibliographic info:
UK, Oxford, Elsevier, 2000, proceedings of Roomvent 2000, "Air Distribution in Rooms: Ventilation for Health and Sustainable Environment", held 9-12 July 2000, Reading, UK, Volume 2, pp 1213-1218, 5 figs, refs.