Windscape: A landscape exhibition shaped by the wind

Windscape: A landscape exhibition shaped by the wind

Valk, M.N.B.

Bier, H. (mentor)
Biloria, N. (mentor)
Vollers, K. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Hyperbody

CECO

2015-06-24

The Technical University Delft has great ambitions for the future. Becoming a well-known university in the world is one of them. Therefore the TU Delft should reconsider the impression that they carry out of the TU Delft Campus. My site is located in the center of the campus, where the 80 -meter-high faculty of EWI (electronis, math and Informatics) is generating a standing vortex (wind that is pushed down) on pedestrian level that forces people to step off there bikes and conquer the wind. My building, designed in the Hyperbody: computational and non-standard studio, will guide the wind away over the pedestrians and use the wind as an energy source. The building, Windscape, contains both study cells and an exhibition route, that shows the highlights and prestigious projects of the Technical University of Delft. The continuous character of the building refers to the continous wind flows that has been the starting point of my design. A CFD-simulation ( generating a protective windsculpture), several Pythonscripts (programme placement and route generation) and grasshopper (final skin components and construction) have been used to generate WindScape in which every space is unique.

Wind
EWI
TU Delft
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Hyperbody

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Student theses

master thesis

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