Form follows climate

Title

Form follows climate: A naturally air-conditioned elderly community in Heerlen

 Author

Zheng, Xiangyu (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Contributor

Snijders, Anne (mentor)
van de Pas, Roel (mentor)
van der Zaag, Engbert (mentor)

Degree granting institution

Delft University of Technology

 Programme

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

 Date

2019-01-29

 Abstract

The project is an elderly housing in Heerlen, the Netherlands. Since the elderly are vulnerable to climate change, It's aimed to offer them more options of social interaction by providing suitable climate for different functions. The rich climate hierarchy corresponding to spatial hierarchy is the key. Instead of common interior and exterior difference, more hierarchies of climate are created in both indoor and outdoor space. The natural air-conditioning system Earth,Wind and Fire and its principle are applior social interactioned for interior, and wind shelter effect is utilized for exterior space. As a result, elderly can always find their own comfortable zone in this building.

 Subject

Natural ventilation
Elderly housing
Tectonics
Natural aircuditioning
Climate hierachy
Indoor environment

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50.8881742, 5.9794988

 Part of collection

Student theses

 Document type

master thesis

 Rights

© 2019 Xiangyu Zheng
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