Week 6 Assignment

This week, we look at basics of natural ventilation and passive cooling.

For your assignment, I want you to devise a scheme for natural ventilation for the project you have been working with since the first week of class. (You can do the entire building, or if the building is large, just pick a portion.) Using the information in the lecture as well as in the readings in Lechner, develop a plausible natural ventilation scheme. Describe it in words and pictures, as necessary. Important elements of your submission:

1) explain what the driver for air movement will be - is it stack driven ventilation, or wind driven?
2) describe the key elements, and the factors that are necessary for success. (for example, window size, relation to prevailing wind, etc.